Saul Bellow Quotes
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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To the new International that is now in the irreversible process of preparation we can contribute the ideas of worldwide organization and the world state; the English can suggest the idea of worldwide exploitation and trusts; the French can offer nothing. ...
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We commute through computers. Spirits stay mute while our ego spread rumors. We're survivalists turned to consumers
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I'm probably never going to be politically correct because I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician. Because politicians do what is politically expedient - I want to do what's right.
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Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.
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The word is not the thing.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations.
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May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?
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You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
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To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.
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I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.
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Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.
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I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.
