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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
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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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I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
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I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.
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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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