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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
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Solomon Bellows
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In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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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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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
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I must play the instrument I've got.
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I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
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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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The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
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It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
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Facts always are sensational.
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Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.
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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
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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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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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