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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
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Solomon Bellows
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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Facts always are sensational.
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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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(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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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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I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.
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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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 life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a 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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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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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
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Live or die but don't poison everything.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
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