Saul Bellow Quotes - Page 8

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• And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?

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  Heart, Mean, Doe

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• Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

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  Fun, Pleasure, Pursue

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• The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

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  Believe, Heart, Blood

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Ravelstein”, p.192, Penguin

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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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  Revolution, Constitution, Rebellious

  Saul Bellow, Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel (1994). “Conversations with Saul Bellow”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

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  Writing, Sea, Distraction

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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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  Teacher, Women, Ability

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• A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

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  Running, Men, May

  1961 Herzog.

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• Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

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  Grateful, Be Grateful, Showing Gratitude

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• I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

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  New York, Thinking, America

  1969 In radio interview, reported in The Listener, 22 May.

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• Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

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  Heart, Self, Broken

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

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• I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

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  Clever, Thinking, Age

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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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  August, Ends, Journalist

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• As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting - the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

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  Art, Philosophy, Science

  "The Adventures of Augie March". Book by Saul Bellow. Chapter 6, 1953.

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• You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.

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  Book, America, Interesting

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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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  Art, Real, Men

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• ... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

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  Influence, Form, Fellows

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• The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.

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  Sleep, Spirit, Hours

  Saul Bellow (2013). “Henderson the Rain King”, p.82, Penguin UK

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• Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

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  Thinking, Nightmare, Life Is

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• I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

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  Acceptance, Self, Eccentric

  Saul Bellow, Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel (1994). “Conversations with Saul Bellow”, p.67, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

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  Mind, Moses, Of My Mind

  Herzog (1961) p. 1 (opening sentence)

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• I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.

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  Want, Monstrosity

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

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• There is simply too much to think about.

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  Thinking, Too Much

  Saul Bellow (1994). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future : a Nonfiction Collection”, New York : Viking

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• Guys like you make life easy for some women.

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  Guy, Like You, Easy

  Saul Bellow (1984). “The Adventures of Augie March”

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• There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

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  Life, Emptiness, Kind

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• A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

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  Writing, Emulation, Reader

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