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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

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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Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage it is harder to find out how he feels.
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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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A man may say, From now on I'm going to speak the truth. But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
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What do women want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
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Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.
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There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.
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We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.
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I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
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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 must play the instrument I've got.
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To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
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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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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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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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