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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

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. — Saul 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

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

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

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

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book. — Saul Bellow

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study. — Saul Bellow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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