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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

Saul Bellow

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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
Unexpected
Beauty
Life
Intrusions
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You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
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Love is the most potent cosmetic.
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I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.
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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
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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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The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
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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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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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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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I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.
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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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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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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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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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