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Live or die but don't poison everything.

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
Poison
Dies
Live
Everything

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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
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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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And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.
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You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
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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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Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.
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I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'
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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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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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