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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
Saul Bellow
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
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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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Fidelity is for phonographs
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Facts always are sensational.
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Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.
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Live or die but don't poison everything.
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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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I must play the instrument I've got.
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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.
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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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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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One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.
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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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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
Saul Bellow
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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A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?
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