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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.
Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
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Solomon Bellows
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My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?
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And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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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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How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
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