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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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
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But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
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Where even a sliver of love exists the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.
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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
