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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

Saul Bellow

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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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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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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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I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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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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Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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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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Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
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(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
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Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.
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The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.
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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
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Facts always are sensational.
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I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.
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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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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.
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