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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Solomon Bellows
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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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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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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.
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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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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
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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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Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.
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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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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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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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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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Live or die but don't poison everything.
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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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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 great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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(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.
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Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
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