Saul Bellow Quotes

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

Saul Bellow

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• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  

  Ouida
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Innocence

• My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Play

• I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Business
  • Always
  • Insecurity

• In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • American
  • Air
  • Innocence

• Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • Today
  • Him
  • Innocence

• To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Believe
  • Beginning
  • Right

• It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Justice
  • Prove
  • Guilt

• Even if you forget that's not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can't reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • Forget
  • Innocence
  • Clean

• Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Age
  • Memories
  • Ugly

• Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Present
  • Actors
  • Natural

• I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Children
  • Family
  • Spirit

• When the great history of horticulture is written I will be listed among the absent.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Great
  • History
  • Absent

• What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Innocence

• Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Like
  • Looks
  • Innocence

• Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Ashamed
  • Innocence

• The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Worst
  • Innocence
  • Buried

• Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Experience

• It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Differences
  • Innocence

• Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Peace

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Courage
  • Enemy

• The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Innocence
  • Absent