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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
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A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
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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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I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.
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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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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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I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
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If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
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Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
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I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
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The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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Death deserves dignity.
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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 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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With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
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