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Love is the most potent cosmetic ... — Saul Bellow

What do women really want? They eat green salad and drink human blood. — Saul Bellow

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature. — Saul Bellow

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

Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence. — Adam Bellow

I don't actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I'm beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul. — Saul Bellow

Each man has his own batch of poems. — Saul Bellow

I guess nothing restrains people from demanding ideal conditions. Very little restrains them from anything. — Saul Bellow

The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. — Saul Bellow

Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable. — Saul Bellow

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

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

What is art but a way of seeing? — Saul Bellow

There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover. — Saul Bellow

Conquered people tend to be witty. — Saul Bellow

A plan relieves you of the torment of choice. — Saul Bellow

I discovered, however, in the early days of our marriage that, in having her way, she put my interests ahead of her own. — Saul Bellow

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did. — Cynthia Ozick

Maybe America didn't need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we. — Saul Bellow

I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty. — Saul Bellow

...and suffering is another bad habit. — Saul Bellow

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever ... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow

The real and essential question is one of our employment by other human beings and their employment by us. — Saul Bellow

During his interviews, he was unable to find essential answers to his ultimate questions: 1. What is man? 2. How should man live? — Nathan Bellow

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. — Saul Bellow

If love is love, it's free. — Saul Bellow

I quit thinking long ago that all old people came to rest from the things they were out for in their younger years. — 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. — Saul Bellow

People forget how sensational the things are that they do. They don't see it on themselves. It blends into the background of their daily life. — Saul Bellow

In the end you can't save your soul and life by thought. But if you think, the least of the consolation prizes is the world. — Saul Bellow

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too — Saul Bellow

What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to. — Saul Bellow

Guys like you make life easy for some women. — Saul Bellow

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. — Saul Bellow

Would never understand what women want. What do they want? They breath salad and drink human blood. — Saul Bellow

A good man can bear to listen to another talk about himself. — Saul Bellow

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. — Saul Bellow

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

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more! — Saul Bellow

When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift. — Saul Bellow

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

It is a joy to be choked with thought. — Saul Bellow

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep. — Saul Bellow

John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read. — Saul Bellow

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters. — Saul Bellow

A fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow

Let the enemies of life step down. — Saul Bellow

But there are things you can't consult anybody about. — Saul Bellow

The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event. — Saul Bellow

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. — Saul Bellow

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred. — Saul Bellow

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. — Saul Bellow

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half. — Saul Bellow

So things go on as before with those who think a great deal and effect nothing, and those who think nothing evidently doing it all... — Saul Bellow

The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know. — Saul Bellow

As for Thea, sometimes she looked more barbarous than they did in spite of the civilized lipstick and conventional shape of the jodhpurs she wore. — Saul Bellow

Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement. — Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow: Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything. — Christopher Hitchens

Herzog abandoned this theme with characteristic abruptness — Saul Bellow

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence. — Saul Bellow

Yes, these business people have great energy. There's a question as to what's burned to produce it and what things we can and can't burn. — Saul Bellow

One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine. — Saul Bellow

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire. — Saul Bellow

If only we dind't have hearts we wouldn't know how sad it was. But we carry around these hearts ... which give us away. — Saul Bellow

Sometimes I wonder," I said, "if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn't make sure first that they can defend themselves. — Saul Bellow

Instead I often felt unusually light and swift-paced, as if I were on a weightless bicycle and sprinting through the star world. — Saul Bellow

Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all. — Saul Bellow

I was just slipping my pajama top over my head when I heard Ren bellow, YOU ate ALL of my peanut ... butter ... COOKIES? — Colleen Houck

Is the carbon molecule lined with thought? — Saul Bellow

I must play the instrument I've got. — Saul Bellow

I am much better now at ambiguities. — Saul Bellow

There is no old age of the soul. — Saul Bellow

It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent. — Saul Bellow

It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think - to say it in your own words, without compromise. — Saul Bellow

To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment. — Saul Bellow

But I was afraid I'd have to give up on an ideal explanation of her past life. Oh well, there didn't have to be one necessarily. — Saul Bellow

It's goodbye to reality when love sets in. — Saul Bellow

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

It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher. — Saul Bellow

It was all there. Only he was not through with love and hate elsewhere. — Saul Bellow

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same. — Saul Bellow

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure. — Saul Bellow

A man is only as good as what he loves. — Saul Bellow

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop. — Saul Bellow

IF THE GREAT ANDROMEDA GALAXY had to depend on you to hold it up, where would it be now but fallen way to hell? — Saul Bellow

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

The lesson of an American life like my father's ... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112). — Saul Bellow

Depressives cannot surrender childhood
not even the pains of childhood. — Saul Bellow

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group? — Saul Bellow

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality. — Saul Bellow

Apes in their own habitat are less sexually driven than those in captivity. It must be that captivity, boredom, breeds lustfulness. — Saul Bellow

She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread. — Saul Bellow

Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort! — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Chaos doesn't run the whole show. — Saul Bellow

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite. — Saul Bellow

Why?" he screamed, letting the noise bellow out loud and ferocious. "Why can I not have some measure of peace?" he questioned. — Charlotte Featherstone

In any true life you must go and be exposed outside the small circle that encompasses two or three heads in the same history of love. — Saul Bellow

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

I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow. — Wesley Clark