Saul Bellow Quotes
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.
Saul Bellow
Quotes to Explore
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
Magdi Yacoub
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
Paddy Ashdown
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
Patrick Whitesell
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Nancy Roman
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Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
Kate Forsyth
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If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.
Leon Edel
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Timing is unpredictable and the severity is uncertain.
Margaret Chan
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
Kate Winslet
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You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?
Catherine O'Hara
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I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.
Terence McKenna