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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
Author
Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
Poetry
Men
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Poems

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You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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Facts always are sensational.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.
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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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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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Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.
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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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One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
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