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Authors
Saul Bellow
American
Novelist
About the author
What is art but a way of seeing?
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Art
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#People
#Libraries
In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Countries
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Country
#America
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Protection
#Chicago
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Suicide
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Ability
#War
#Money
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Unconscious
#Psychoanalysis
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Night
#Change
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Feeling
#Confidence
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Work
#Women
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Advice
Conquered people tend to be witty.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#People
#Witty
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Goal
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Country
#Rest
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Longing
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Men
#Fool
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Study
#Worth
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Ignorance
#Deep
#Illusion
#Intelligence
A man is only as good as what he loves.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Man
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Life
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Needs
#Memories
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Grace
#Reason
#Artist
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Accuracy
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Men
#Goodness
#Company
Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#American
#Culture
#America
#Business
I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Saul Bellow,
American
Novelist
#Woman
#Writer