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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions they've replaced passions with excitement.
Saul Bellow
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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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Humans
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Smaller
Replaced
Passions
Excitement
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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
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There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
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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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