Saul Bellow Quotes
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
Quotes to Explore
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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Where there is love there is life.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
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Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.
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The idea of a young girl who knows exactly what she wants with her life is the most threatening and unappealing thing you can imagine.
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I'm a Brazilian - full blood, parents born and raised, and I lived there for a little bit - but I didn't grow up there.
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Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.
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I think, for a while, my music was exclusively for those who shared my beliefs. But I realized I was perpetuating the bubble that I was living in instead of inviting people into my world.
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Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
