Saul Bellow Quotes
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Quotes to Explore
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
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Hospitals are about healing.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.
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The avowed policy of non-cooperation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
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A young man, who's marching like a leopard, can't keep himself by the mistakes of the past.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
