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.

Saul Bellow

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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.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Task

• 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.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Myself

• It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Always
  • Picture
  • Independent

• 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.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Better

• Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • You
  • Woman
  • Yourself

• Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

  

  Om Puri
  • Effort
  • Language
  • Cinema

• When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Children
  • Education
  • Point

• I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Give

• During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Makeup

• Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Time
  • May
  • Space

• 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.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Care

• Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Men
  • Words
  • inspirational

• 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.

  

  Yehuda Bauer
  • Successful
  • Israel
  • Holocaust

• 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?

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Person
  • Give

• It's not a small world! It's a painful, ugly world!

  

  Harry Edward Kane
  • World
  • Small
  • Ugly

• I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

  

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
  • Human
  • Actor
  • Behavior

• There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it. I know what I am saying. It is no delusion. I believe the highest, purest happiness is known only to those who have learned Christ in sickrooms, in poverty, in racking suspense and anxiety, amid hardships, and at the open grave.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Happiness
  • Poverty
  • Christ

• When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Scientists
  • Group Of People

• What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who saw China as I did in 1971 - and for that matter even in 1979, because not much had changed between 1971 and 1979 - and sees China today, knows one is in a different economic system.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • China
  • Revolution
  • Economic System

• The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

  

  Mike Rounds
  • Important
  • Forget
  • Campaigns

• A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Novel
  • Impression
  • Balanced