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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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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
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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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I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.
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You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.
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