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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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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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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.
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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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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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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.
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(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
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There is simply too much to think about.
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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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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
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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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It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.
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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
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