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.
Saul Bellow
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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.
Bat for Lashes
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
Pat Paulsen
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
Jack Kingston
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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.
Walter Hill
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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.
Nassau William Senior
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I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.
Gary Cherone
Van Halen
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My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
Kenneth G. Wilson
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Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.
B. Traven
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Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
Twinkle Khanna
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When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
Flannery O'Connor
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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.
Saul Bellow
