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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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I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.
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There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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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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The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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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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The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
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Love is the most potent cosmetic.
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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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With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.
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There is simply too much to think about.
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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
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