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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.
Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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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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Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
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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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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
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An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
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I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.
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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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The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
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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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It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
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I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions they've replaced passions with excitement.
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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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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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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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You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
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In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too
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