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

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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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.
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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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The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.
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Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.
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Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.
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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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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'
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I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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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. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.
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The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.
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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.
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A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
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