American - Novelist | June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Saul Bellow
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
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