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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
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Live or die but don't poison everything.
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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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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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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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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
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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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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
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Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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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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What do women want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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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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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
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