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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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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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I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.
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A man may say, From now on I'm going to speak the truth. But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
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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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With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
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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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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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Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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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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Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
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I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
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And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try 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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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.
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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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