Saul Bellow Quotes
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
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After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.
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But what if no one's watching?What if when we're dead, we are just dead?What if there's no time to lose?What if there's things we gotta do,Things that need to be said?
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The European public has always been great to me.
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What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.
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The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.
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I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
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Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?
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If you're differently-abled, if you're a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that's different from the norm, for whatever reason, there's an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously.
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The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.
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Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
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This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.
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I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people trying to control our lives who are actually very unspiritual... God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
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When women can't climax, it's our fault, but when we can't get an erection, we have to go to the doctor.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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I'm pagan.
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I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
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I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.
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This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
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There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.
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Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
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I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
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I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.
