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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
Author
Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Solomon Bellows
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Life
Existing
Turning
Transformation
Unless
Point
Reason

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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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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
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It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.
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When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
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I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.
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The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
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Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.
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Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.
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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
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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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Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage it is harder to find out how he feels.
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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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Death deserves dignity.
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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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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