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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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In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.
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Live or die but don't poison everything.
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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
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An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
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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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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
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I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
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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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You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
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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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Love is the most potent cosmetic.
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
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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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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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