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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 good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
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To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
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Facts always are sensational.
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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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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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A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
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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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With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
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I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.
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It is a joy to be choked with thought.
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If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
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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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Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage it is harder to find out how he feels.
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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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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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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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