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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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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.
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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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When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
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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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It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
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I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
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Each man has his own batch of poems.
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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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I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
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She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
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People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
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