Saul Bellow Quotes
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
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You learn in the pros that errors can be costly.
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We're all different, so even though someone is getting a skill before you, it doesn't mean that you're not good enough; it just means you have to wait a little bit, and the skill will come when it comes.
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We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.
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'It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.' - source
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Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young painters and sculptors need to know the works of their immediate elders. Such a continuity does not exist here to a sufficient degree in the visual arts.
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I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.
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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
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When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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Sexual scandals are especially effective against Republicans who can then also be accused of hypocrisy inasmuch as they're always spouting off about morality and junk like that. Of course, some personal issues such as former Klan membership or leaving the scene of a fatal accident are off limits for obvious reasons
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Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers.
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You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
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I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.
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The kitchen was the kind of brushed steel monstrosity that looks more like it's designed to weaponise viruses than cook dinner.
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Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.
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The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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UPS stands as an example of a company that's already doing great things.
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I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
