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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
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Poems
Poetry
Men

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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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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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It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
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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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It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.
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In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too
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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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If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
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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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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
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It is a joy to be choked with thought.
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Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.
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An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
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At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
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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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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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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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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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In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?
Saul Bellow