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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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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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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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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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There is simply too much to think about.
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We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
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Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
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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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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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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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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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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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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
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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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