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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Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
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I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.
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Pressure is something you feel when you don’t know what the hell you’re doing.
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People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.
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It is always wise to remember that others will survive even if we are not there taking care of them. I found out that I feel so much better when I take an hour a day, just to take care of me and love myself. It keeps me from feeling so put upon by everything and everybody and helps me get through the day. By taking my hour early in the morning, I feel like I get my love first and I get it when I am at my best.
