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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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I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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What do women want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
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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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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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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions they've replaced passions with excitement.
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It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.
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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.
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I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'
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In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?
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Facts always are sensational.
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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
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