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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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University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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