Saul Bellow Short Quotes

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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.

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You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.

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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

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The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

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I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

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Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.

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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

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If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

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Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.

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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

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And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?

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Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

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I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

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Libby…was what we used to call a 'suicide blonde' (dyed by her own hand).

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Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.

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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

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As though to be Jewish weren't trouble enough, the poor woman was German, too.

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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

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A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

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A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.

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You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

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There's almost nothing personal in success. Success is always money's own success.

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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.

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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

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Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be glad to read him.

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