Quote

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

Saul Bellow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
Author
Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Solomon Bellows
Humor
Asks
Looking
Funny
Accomplice
Accomplices
Mathematical
Advice
Usually

More quotes by Saul Bellow

Image
If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
Saul Bellow
Image
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.'
Saul Bellow
Image
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Saul Bellow
Image
I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
Saul Bellow
Image
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.
Saul Bellow
Image
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
Saul Bellow
Image
It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
Saul Bellow
Image
The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
Saul Bellow
Image
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.
Saul Bellow
Image
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.
Saul Bellow
Image
O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
Saul Bellow
Image
She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
Saul Bellow
Image
Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
Saul Bellow
Image
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.
Saul Bellow
Image
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow
Image
Love is the most potent cosmetic.
Saul Bellow
Image
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.
Saul Bellow
Image
... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
Saul Bellow
Image
Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
Saul Bellow
Image
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
Saul Bellow