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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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 love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.
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We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can solve a problem only when I say, "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it."
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It was just so cool to put on my uncle's masks and wrestle with him. I knew that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a part of this world.
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I get a great high from writing.
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I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.
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“I used to think that people worried about one world government were more than a little paranoid. Today, not so much.”
