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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And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers. There are heroes in the seaweed, There are children in the morning, They are leaning out for love, And they will lean that way forever, While Suzanne holds the mirror.
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Comics day came and went. Another shoes day came and went. And another comics day followed that - the typical production and consumption cycles that help us survice our dismal, meaningless little lives.
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State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
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Imparadis'd in one another's arms.
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
