Saul Bellow Quotes
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Quotes to Explore
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
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It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.
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Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
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The establishment of the state of Israel is not the result of the Holocaust. It is almost a result of the fact that the Holocaust was not totally successful.
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Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?
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It's not a small world! It's a painful, ugly world!
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
