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Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
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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I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
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My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?
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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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(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
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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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The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
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Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.
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When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
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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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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions they've replaced passions with excitement.
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She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
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The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.
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