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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Solomon Bellows
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Grounds
Realistic
Art

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I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.
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It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
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