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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
Writer
Solomon Bellows
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Indifferent
Like
Cold
People
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Either
Hate
Write
Must
Flat
Writing
Flats

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I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
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She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
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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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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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.
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You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
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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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How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
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A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
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The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
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The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.
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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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