Saul Bellow Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.
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In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
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It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.
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When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.
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In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
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But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.
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Who can rest until the moment of action?
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In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.
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In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.
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Some things you never forget.
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When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.
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The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.
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Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.
