"I pretended not to understand. One of life's……" — Saul Bellow
"I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog."
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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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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
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