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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Solomon Bellows
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One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.
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All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.
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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
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Well, everybody has a history.
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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.
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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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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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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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I must play the instrument I've got.
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Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.
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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.
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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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