Saul Bellow Quotes
The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he or she can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
Quotes to Explore
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
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Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
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It is so ambiguous as to be scarcely intelligible in some parts (and those the principal), yet as a whole, it is novel and affecting.
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The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he seemed to pass through life as in a dream.
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The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
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She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.
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The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he or she can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
