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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

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
Writer
Solomon Bellows
Illness
Plenty
Species
Evidence
Crazy

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty but learn to be happy alone.
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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
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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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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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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions they've replaced passions with excitement.
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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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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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Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
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Facts always are sensational.
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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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Each man has his own batch of poems.
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The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
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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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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.
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One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.
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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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Well, everybody has a history.
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One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.
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