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I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.

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
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Solomon Bellows
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Indifferent
Like
Cold
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Either
Hate
Write
Must
Flat
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Flats

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I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
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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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The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
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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.
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Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.
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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?
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Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.
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You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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