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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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University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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There is simply too much to think about.
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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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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions they've replaced passions with excitement.
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Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.
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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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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?
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To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
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The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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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.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
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You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.
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