Saul Bellow Quotes
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Saul Bellow Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.
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.
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.
Some men seem to know exactly where their opportunities lie; they break prisons and cross whole Siberias to pursue them. One room holds me.
All at once he was aware that his angry spirit had stolen forth again and he was about to write letters.
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.
In the depths of a man's being there was something that responded with a quack to such perfume. Quack!
It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
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.
He had come into a view of mutability, and I too could see that one is only ostensibly born to remain in specified limits.
It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
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 something funny about the human condition, and civilized intelligence makes fun of its own ideas.
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?
or what good is it?
To him, perpetual thought of death was a sin. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever ... money, for instance, or war.
I quit thinking long ago that all old people came to rest from the things they were out for in their younger years.
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 lesson of an American life like my father's ... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).
She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
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.
Sometimes I wonder," I said, "if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn't make sure first that they can defend themselves.
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.
Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.
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.
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
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.
Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.
I discovered, however, in the early days of our marriage that, in having her way, she put my interests ahead of her own.
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.