Saul Bellow Quotes
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
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Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.
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I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
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'But girls often marry when they are too young,' exclaimed Mary-Marie quickly; 'so, if you don't object to my age - '
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.
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I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.
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Death deserves dignity.
