"You have one of two choices. Either you……" — Saul Bellow
"You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading."
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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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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over…
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle…
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent…
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If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near…
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
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