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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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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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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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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If you're a skilled player, you want to use your skill, not just hit the puck.
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Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.
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My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
