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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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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.
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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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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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The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
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Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.
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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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The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
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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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I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
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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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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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Live or die but don't poison everything.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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What do women want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
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The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.
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I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.
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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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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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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions they've replaced passions with excitement.
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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
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