"A writer is a reader moved to emulation." — Saul Bellow
"A writer is a reader moved to emulation."
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Saul Bellow
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215 Quotes by Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow has 215 quotes on this site.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the…
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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More Emulation Quotes
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one of 32 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of…
— Jimmy Carter
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My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and…
— Thorstein Veblen
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Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
— Alan Cohen
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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
— Henry Fielding
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News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close…
— Unknown Author
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As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most…
— Thomas S. Monson
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I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and…
— Samuel Johnson
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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
— Hosea Ballou
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and…
— Thorstein Veblen
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