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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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University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
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Death
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I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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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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I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.
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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 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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.
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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
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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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Facts always are sensational.
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.
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I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
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To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
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It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
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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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