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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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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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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.
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The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.
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Each man has his own batch of poems.
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Facts always are sensational.
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I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
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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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People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
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When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
Saul Bellow
