"Art has to do with the arrest of……" — Saul Bellow
"Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction."
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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 Arrest Quotes
This quote is filed under Arrest Quotes,
one of 173 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating,…
— Constantin Brancusi
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property,…
— Edward Abbey
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The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint…
— John Bruton
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Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse…
— Richard M. Nixon
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
— Thomas Brooks
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject…
— William O. Douglas
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Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to…
— Toni Morrison
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and…
— Lester R. Brown
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so…
— William Faulkner
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If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds…
— Eduard Suess
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I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything…
— Leelee Sobieski
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