Classic Quotes by Saul Bellow (1915-2005)...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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