Saul Bellow Quotes
It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
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Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
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Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
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I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
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'What harm have the trees done them?' he said. 'Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other men.'
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...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.
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The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.
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Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
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I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.
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Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.
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I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
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It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.
