"I blame myself for not often enough seeing……" — Saul Bellow
"I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous."
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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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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
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My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go…
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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