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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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Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
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Solomon Bellows
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It is a joy to be choked with thought.
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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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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
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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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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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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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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.
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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.
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We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.
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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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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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