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Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

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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Language

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The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
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I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions they've replaced passions with excitement.
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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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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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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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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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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
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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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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
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I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.
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The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.
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I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.
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Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.
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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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