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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
Author
Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Solomon Bellows
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Fidelity

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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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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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What do women want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
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It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
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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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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
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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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Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
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Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.
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The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
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