Saul Bellow Quotes
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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I saw this on CNN a few days ago. In New York these cops freaked out. They shot at this guy like 15 times 'cause they said they thought he had a a grenade. HE WAS EATING A PEAR! How do you fuck that up?! Unless he was eating it like 'AHHHHHH! *throws pear* THAT'S A DELICIOUS PEAR!!!'
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It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.
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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
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I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
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As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.
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One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.
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I'm going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it's the end of the game. That's how I'm going to keep playing.
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The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.
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It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
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I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.
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I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.
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I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.
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I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.
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Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
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When thinking about starting a business, I think it’s actually better to start in a trough and come to market in a peak, than the other way around. Frankly, if anything does, and it’s almost cliche, space has a long-term future.
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I'm much happier and more fulfilled than I thought I would ever be, especially when I was going through a lot of grief when I was younger. I hope it lasts.
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In ancient Judaism the king of Israel was considered both Son of God and—astonishingly enough—even God.
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The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.
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There is simply too much to think about.
