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Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

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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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How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
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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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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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What do women want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
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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 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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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.
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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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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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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
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You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
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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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Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.
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