Saul Bellow Quotes
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Quotes to Explore
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
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I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
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My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.
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I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
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Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.
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Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future.
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Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.
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I'm in a television program that is always among the top 20, that's shown in 67 countries in the world, helping lobotomize the entire world.
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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.