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Saul Bellow quotes: No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Saul Bellow quotes: What do women really want? They eat green salad and drink human blood. What do women really want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
Saul Bellow quotes: Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
Saul Bellow quotes: Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy. Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.
Saul Bellow quotes: She was what we used to call a suicide blonde dyed by her own hand. She was what we used to call a suicide blonde
dyed by her own hand.
Saul Bellow quotes: I've had all the monstrosity I want. I've had all the monstrosity I want.
Saul Bellow quotes: It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart. It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
Saul Bellow quotes: There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down. There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
Saul Bellow quotes: You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside. You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
Saul Bellow quotes: Each man has his own batch of poems. Each man has his own batch of poems.
Saul Bellow quotes: And the process started over again. Once more it was, Who are you? And I had to confess that I didn't know where to begin. And the process started over again. Once more it was, Who are you? And I had to confess that I didn't know where to begin.
Saul Bellow quotes: Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable. Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.
Saul Bellow quotes: What is art but a way of seeing? What is art but a way of seeing?
Saul Bellow quotes: The hour that burst the spirit's sleep... The hour that burst the spirit's sleep...
Saul Bellow quotes: Some men seem to know exactly where their opportunities lie; they break prisons and cross whole Siberias to pursue them. One room holds me. Some men seem to know exactly where their opportunities lie; they break prisons and cross whole Siberias to pursue them. One room holds me.
Saul Bellow quotes: I want! I want! I want! I want! I want! I want!
Saul Bellow quotes: It is my childish mind that thinks people are ready to give it just because you need it. It is my childish mind that thinks people are ready to give it just because you need it.
Saul Bellow quotes: It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband. It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.
Saul Bellow quotes: All at once he was aware that his angry spirit had stolen forth again and he was about to write letters. All at once he was aware that his angry spirit had stolen forth again and he was about to write letters.
Saul Bellow quotes: Between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime. Between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime.
Saul Bellow quotes: Nobody should be a mystery intentionally. Unintentionally is mysterious enough. Nobody should be a mystery intentionally. Unintentionally is mysterious enough.
Saul Bellow quotes: As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay. As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay.
Saul Bellow quotes: I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution. I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
Saul Bellow quotes: In the depths of a man's being there was something that responded with a quack to such perfume. Quack! In the depths of a man's being there was something that responded with a quack to such perfume. Quack!
Saul Bellow quotes: Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow quotes: It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route. It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
Saul Bellow quotes: I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want.
Saul Bellow quotes: He had come into a view of mutability, and I too could see that one is only ostensibly born to remain in specified limits. He had come into a view of mutability, and I too could see that one is only ostensibly born to remain in specified limits.
Saul Bellow quotes: In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries. In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
Saul Bellow quotes: But i am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness. But i am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.
Saul Bellow quotes: A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study. A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Saul Bellow quotes: Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue. Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
Saul Bellow quotes: Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken. Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
Saul Bellow quotes: A writer is a reader moved to emulation. A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
Saul Bellow quotes: To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment. To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.
Saul Bellow quotes: It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality. It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
Saul Bellow quotes: First these people murdered you, then they forced you to brood over their crimes. First these people murdered you, then they forced you to brood over their crimes.
Saul Bellow quotes: The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence. The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.
Saul Bellow quotes: 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. 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 quotes: There is something funny about the human condition, and civilized intelligence makes fun of its own ideas. There is something funny about the human condition, and civilized intelligence makes fun of its own ideas.
Saul Bellow quotes: Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of loveor what good is it? Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love
or what good is it?
Saul Bellow quotes: Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn't mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena. Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn't mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena.
Saul Bellow quotes: But she's a nut, and nuts win. But she's a nut, and nuts win.
Saul Bellow quotes: You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul Bellow quotes: And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up. And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
Saul Bellow quotes: Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars. Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.
Saul Bellow quotes: People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow quotes: Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing? Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?
Saul Bellow quotes: I am not an ornithologist - I am a bird. I am not an ornithologist - I am a bird.
Saul Bellow quotes: The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep. The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep.
Saul Bellow quotes: To him, perpetual thought of death was a sin. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead. To him, perpetual thought of death was a sin. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
Saul Bellow quotes: A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone. A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
Saul Bellow quotes: The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern. The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.
Saul Bellow quotes: Oh yes, I got up on my hindlegs like an orator and sounded off to everyone. Oh yes, I got up on my hindlegs like an orator and sounded off to everyone.
Saul Bellow quotes: It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite. It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
Saul Bellow quotes: ...and suffering is another bad habit. ...and suffering is another bad habit.
Saul Bellow quotes: There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever ... money, for instance, or war. There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever ... money, for instance, or war.
Saul Bellow quotes: I quit thinking long ago that all old people came to rest from the things they were out for in their younger years. 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 quotes: What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to. What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to.
Saul Bellow quotes: It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher. It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher.
Saul Bellow quotes: The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure. The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
Saul Bellow quotes: A man is only as good as what he loves. A man is only as good as what he loves.
Saul Bellow quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The lesson of an American life like my father's ... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112). The lesson of an American life like my father's ... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).
Saul Bellow quotes: It's goodbye to reality when love sets in. It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
Saul Bellow quotes: She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread. She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
Saul Bellow quotes: 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. 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 quotes: At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them. At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
Saul Bellow quotes: Sometimes I wonder," I said, "if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn't make sure first that they can defend themselves. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement. Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.
Saul Bellow quotes: Herzog abandoned this theme with characteristic abruptness Herzog abandoned this theme with characteristic abruptness
Saul Bellow quotes: I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence. I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.
Saul Bellow quotes: You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half. You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
Saul Bellow quotes: I must play the instrument I've got. I must play the instrument I've got.
Saul Bellow quotes: There is no old age of the soul. There is no old age of the soul.
Saul Bellow quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Would never understand what women want. What do they want? They breath salad and drink human blood. Would never understand what women want. What do they want? They breath salad and drink human blood.
Saul Bellow quotes: Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
Saul Bellow quotes: When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake. When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
Saul Bellow quotes: A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking. A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
Saul Bellow quotes: One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
Saul Bellow quotes: I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists. I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.
Saul Bellow quotes: Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you. Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.
Saul Bellow quotes: Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay. Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.
Saul Bellow quotes: Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment. Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.
Saul Bellow quotes: It's wasted on dummies." (Life is). "They give it to dummies and fools. It's wasted on dummies." (Life is). "They give it to dummies and fools.
Saul Bellow quotes: I discovered, however, in the early days of our marriage that, in having her way, she put my interests ahead of her own. 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 quotes: I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow quotes: Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
Saul Bellow quotes: A good man can bear to listen to another talk about himself. A good man can bear to listen to another talk about himself.
Saul Bellow quotes: You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it. You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.
Saul Bellow quotes: For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more! For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!
Saul Bellow quotes: Guys like you make life easy for some women. Guys like you make life easy for some women.
Saul Bellow quotes: John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read. John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read.
Saul Bellow quotes: Let the enemies of life step down. Let the enemies of life step down.
Saul Bellow quotes: But there are things you can't consult anybody about. But there are things you can't consult anybody about.
Saul Bellow quotes: From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
Saul Bellow quotes: Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
Saul Bellow quotes: A plan relieves you of the torment of choice. A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.

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