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A man is only as good as what he loves.
Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Solomon Bellows
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If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
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We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
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I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.
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How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
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When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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What do women want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
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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.
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I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.
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I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
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You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.
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I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.
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