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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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University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
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Accomplice
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Mathematical
Advice
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Humor

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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.
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Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty but learn to be happy alone.
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In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?
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I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.
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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions they've replaced passions with excitement.
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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
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There is simply too much to think about.
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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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My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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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 stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
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The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
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She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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