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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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Solomon Bellows
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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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It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
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Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
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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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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
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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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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
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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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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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