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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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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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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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It is a joy to be choked with thought.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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I must play the instrument I've got.
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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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Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
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A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?
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Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
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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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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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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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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
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Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.
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