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It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

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Location, Originality, Sometimes

SAUL BELLOW (1971). “MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET”

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In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.

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Depressing, Crazy, Humble

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It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

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Husband, Hate, Substitutes

Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

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Love, Country, Expressing Love

"Bellow in his own words". www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2005.

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Guys like you make life easy for some women.

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Guy, Like You, Easy

Saul Bellow (1984). “The Adventures of Augie March”

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I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.

Saul Bellow

Writing, Drug, Use

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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

Passion, Heart, Voice

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I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.

Saul Bellow

Jobs, Thinking, Hardest Job

Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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The best argument is an undeniably good book.

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Book, Argument, Defeat

Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.167, Penguin

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I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.

Saul Bellow

Hate, Writing, People

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My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

Saul Bellow

Life, Mean, Mind

Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.

Saul Bellow

Heart, Men, Term

Saul Bellow (2015). “Mr. Sammler's Planet”, p.203, Odyssey Editions

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Facts always are sensational.

Saul Bellow

Facts, Sensational

Saul Bellow (2013). “Seize the Day”, p.50, Odyssey Editions

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Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

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Art, Design, Matter

Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

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...chaos doesn't run the whole show.

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Running, Chaos, Shows

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Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.

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Sex, Practice, People

1987 More Die of Heartbreak.

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Death deserves dignity.

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Death, Dignity, Deserve

Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

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Struggle, Soul, Individual

Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.88, Odyssey Editions

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All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.

Saul Bellow

Imagination, Force, Forces Of Nature

"Henderson the Rain King". Book by Saul Bellow, Chapter 18, p. 271, 1959.

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A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself.

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Soul, Would Be, Millennials

Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.258, Penguin

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Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

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Religious, People, Busy

Saul Bellow (1994). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future : a Nonfiction Collection”, New York : Viking

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I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.

Saul Bellow

Love You, Mean, May

Saul Bellow (1984). “The Adventures of Augie March”

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Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

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Ruins, Purpose, Seems

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Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

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Misery

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And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?

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Heart, Mean, Doe

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Born: June 10, 1915
Died: April 5, 2005
Occupation: Writer
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