Saul Bellow Quotes

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A man is only as good as what he loves.
Saul Bellow

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow

Great, Ignorance, Deep

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
Saul Bellow

Life, Human, Painful

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Saul Bellow

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Saul Bellow

Yourself, Free, Found

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Saul Bellow

Person, Around, Goes

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow

Keep, Door, Everybody

What is art but a way of seeing?
Saul Bellow

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow

Men, Wise, Fool

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
Saul Bellow

Side, Price, Leaf

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Saul Bellow

Work, Women, Men

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
Saul Bellow

Book, Looking, Read

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow

Love, Men, Company

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
Saul Bellow

Lived, Vain, Glad

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
Saul Bellow

Love, Among, Countries

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Saul Bellow

Put, Conscious, Definition

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
Saul Bellow

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Saul Bellow

Advice, Looking, Ask

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
Saul Bellow

Good, Someone, Confidence

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Saul Bellow

Good, Best, Study

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow

Life, True, Between

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow

Him, Reason, Grateful

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Saul Bellow

Country, Rest, California

Conquered people tend to be witty.
Saul Bellow

Witty, Conquered, Tend

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow

Down, Everybody, Knows

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: June 10, 1914

Died: April 5, 2005

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