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Well, everybody has a history.

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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Everybody
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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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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.
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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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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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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
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A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.
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We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
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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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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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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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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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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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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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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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We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.
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