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 think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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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 one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority.
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It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.
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I don't care about fame. Problems everywhere.
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I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good.
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Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
