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Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
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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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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
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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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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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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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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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The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
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You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
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I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.
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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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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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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions they've replaced passions with excitement.
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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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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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