Saul Bellow Quotes - Page 3

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• All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!

  Saul Bellow

  Imagination, Accomplishment, Enough

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• The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

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  Real, Two, Boredom

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• Live or die but don't poison everything.

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  Poison, Dies

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Love is the most potent cosmetic.

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  Love, Love Is, Cosmetics

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Mr. Sammler's Planet”, p.20, Odyssey Editions

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

  Saul Bellow

  Marriage, Writing, Aphrodisiac

  "Dailer's Choice" by Harriet Van Horne, The New York Magazine, Volume 10, No. 13, p. 80, March 28, 1977.

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• It is a joy to be choked with thought.

  Saul Bellow

  Joy

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his or her "characteristics," all the emotions, strivings, tastes, and constructions which it pleases us to call "My Life." We have grounds to hope that a Life is something more than a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

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  Life, Clouds, Light

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

  Saul Bellow

  Book, Next

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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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  Art, Achievement, Chaos

  In George Plimpton 'Writers at Work' (1967) 3rd series, p. 190

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• I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

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  Children, Support, Cost

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

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  Real, Boredom, Social

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

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  Inspirational, Solitude, Company

  "Saul Bellow: Letters".

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• I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.

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  Stupid, Wells, Well Rounded

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• The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.

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  Art, Prayer, Eye

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• One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

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  Existentialism, Murder, Psychiatrist

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

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  Running, Phoenix, Arsonists

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• In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

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  Country, California, America

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• Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

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  Decision, Tree, Alternatives

  SAUL BELLOW (1944). “DANGLING MAN”

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• I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

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  Aging, Vain, Glad

  "In Bellow's shadow" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. November 27, 2000.

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• Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

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  Dangerous, Strict, Seriousness

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Ravelstein”, p.1, Penguin

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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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  Mistake, Firsts, Arguing

  Saul Bellow (2012). “The Adventures of Augie March”, p.477, Penguin UK

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

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  Kindness, Men, Vacuums

  SAUL BELLOW (1944). “DANGLING MAN”

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• In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.

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  Business, Confusion, Soul

  Foreword to "The Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom, 1987.

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• We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

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  Inspirational, Stars, Fire

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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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  Retirement, Golf, Too Much

  Saul Bellow (2009). “The Actual: A Novella”, p.38, Penguin

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