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I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Saul Bellow

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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
Attention
Art
Something
Think
Arrest
Distraction
Midst

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