Saul Bellow Quotes
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
Quotes to Explore
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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Living life as normally as possible gives you a richer well of experiences to draw from.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.
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The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.
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As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?
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Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
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It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
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I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.
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Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.
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I did babysit a little bit when I was young. I prefer babysitting for babies. I always loved babies. I was not as great with kids that wanted to be entertained and that wanted to talk.
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Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
