Saul Bellow Quotes
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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To keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that you may eat it, is a lie. You cannot look that man or animal in the face.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.
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I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.
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I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.
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I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
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We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.
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There needs to be an allegiance to the United States and what this country stands for.
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What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
