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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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You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.
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The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.
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Fidelity is for phonographs
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Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.
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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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It is a joy to be choked with thought.
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(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
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You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
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There is simply too much to think about.
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And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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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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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
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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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