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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul Bellow
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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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I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.
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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.
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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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It is a joy to be choked with thought.
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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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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
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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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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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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
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One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.
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And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.
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I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
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