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Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

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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It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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I must play the instrument I've got.
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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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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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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 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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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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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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The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.
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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.
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A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
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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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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
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