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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I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.
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For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.
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With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have it down.
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'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories.
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My father was Australian.
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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.
