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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.'

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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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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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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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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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
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The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.
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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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Live or die but don't poison everything.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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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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