Saul Bellow Quotes

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'

Saul Bellow

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• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Drawing

• When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Job
  • Play
  • Thought

• Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Anger

• The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Game

• I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Books
  • Read
  • Whatever

• Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Want
  • Tomorrow
  • Possible

• If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Today
  • Information

• Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Learn
  • Same
  • Everyone

• My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Mother
  • Moving
  • New York

• People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • People
  • Work
  • Financial

• If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Long
  • Control
  • Myself

• I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • True
  • Guilt

• There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency... You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Celebrity

• Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Much
  • Mature
  • Less

• There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

  

  Kenzo Tange
  • Heart
  • Powerful
  • Architecture

• If you possess the ability to learn from your mistakes, then failure is literally impossible, because each rejection brings you closer to perfection.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Failure
  • Rejection

• I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Heart
  • Hell
  • Judgment