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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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Solomon Bellows
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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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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You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.
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I must play the instrument I've got.
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There is simply too much to think about.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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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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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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How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
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Well, everybody has a history.
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I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
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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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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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The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
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Each man has his own batch of poems.
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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
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