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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
Author
Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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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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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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All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.
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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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I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
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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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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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Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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Love is the most potent cosmetic.
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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
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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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Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.
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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
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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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