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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

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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It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
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I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.
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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
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You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty but learn to be happy alone.
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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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A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
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