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All Quotes by author - Saul Bellow

" A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out. "

" A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study. "

" A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. "

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

" A man is only as good as what he loves. "

" A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. "

" Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. "

" California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. "

" Conquered people tend to be witty. "

" Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. "

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

" Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. "

" Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. "

" If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. "

" I'm glad I haven't lived in vain. "

" In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries. "

" In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California. "

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

" I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. "

" No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. "

" People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. "

" Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. "

" She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. "

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

" There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. "

" We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next. "

" What is art but a way of seeing? "

" When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. "

" Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. "

" With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence. "

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