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

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Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.
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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.
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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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The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
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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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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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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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Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
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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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A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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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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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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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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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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Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.
Saul Bellow