Saul Bellow Quotes
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
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Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
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If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!
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Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.
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we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
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Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.
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This massacre in Orlando is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a movie theater or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision, as well.
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There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.
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I'll always push for what I believe in. That's what you're supposed to do. If you're an American, you're supposed to be part of the political process, especially if you've been denied it.
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We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person "to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion." Neither can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against nonbelievers, and neither can aid those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs.
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
