A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
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
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Saul Bellow
Any artist should be grateful for a nanve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Saul Bellow
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow
I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you."
Saul Bellow
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
Saul Bellow
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Saul Bellow
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Saul Bellow
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
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
She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand.
Saul Bellow
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.
Saul Bellow
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Saul Bellow
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
What is art but a way of seeing?
Saul Bellow
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Saul Bellow
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Saul Bellow
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul Bellow
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Type:
Novelist
Date of Birth:
1914-06-10
Year of Death:
Nationality:
American |
