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Live or die but don't poison everything.

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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
Everything
Poison
Dies
Live

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The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
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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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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.
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The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.
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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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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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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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Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.
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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
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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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There is simply too much to think about.
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The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
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