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I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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University Teacher
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Pure
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The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.
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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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People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
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The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
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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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Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
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Death deserves dignity.
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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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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.
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I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
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