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Conquered people tend to be witty.

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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We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.
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Death deserves dignity.
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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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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions they've replaced passions with excitement.
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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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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
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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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I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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