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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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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Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.
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Doing the simple thing first doesn't mean your solution will work forever.
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Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.
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To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.
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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.
