"Death is the dark backing a mirror needs……" — Saul Bellow
"Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything"
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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 Backing Quotes
This quote is filed under Backing Quotes,
one of 106 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers…
— David Bowie
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That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible…
— Learned Hand
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A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.
— Ruth Gordon
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Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
— Dan Millman
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Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite…
— Napoleon Hill
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Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
— Carrie Fisher
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Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I…
— Desiree Linden
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History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
— Alan Bean
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I'm the best at talking trash I'm also the best at going out there and backing it up.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken…
— Unknown Author
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People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim…
— Pete Rose
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