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.
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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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A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In such cases we have a sense in which the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be performer and observer of the same show. Presumably he introcepts or incorporates the standards he attempts to maintain in the presence of others so that even in their absence his conscience requires him to act in a socially proper way.
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A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.
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I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
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I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.
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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.
