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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

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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In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.
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I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Well, everybody has a history.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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Fidelity is for phonographs
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Love is the most potent cosmetic.
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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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It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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