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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

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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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
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