Saul Bellow Quotes
"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: People, Libraries)
"In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Love, Countries)
"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."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: America, Country)
"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Chicago, Protection)
"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Suicide)
"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: War, Money, Ability)
"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
(Related: Psychoanalysis, Unconscious)
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Change, Night)
"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
(Related: Confidence, Feeling)
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Women, Work)
"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Advice)
"Conquered people tend to be witty."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: People, Witty)
"We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next."
- Saul Bellow
"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Goal)
"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Country, Rest)
"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
(Related: Life, Longing)
"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Men, Fool)
"A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Study, Worth)
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Intelligence, Deep, Ignorance, Illusion)
"A man is only as good as what he loves."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Man)
"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
(Related: Life)
"Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Memories, Needs)
"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Artist, Grace, Reason)
"I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side."
- Saul Bellow
"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Accuracy)
"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Love, Men, Company, Goodness)
"Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions."
- Saul Bellow
"I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Business, America, American, Culture)
"I'm glad I haven't lived in vain."
- Saul Bellow
"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Woman, Writer)