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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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Solomon Bellows
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
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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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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
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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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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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It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
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A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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