Saul Bellow Quotes - Page 8

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• Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

  Saul Bellow

  Fun, Pleasure, Pursue

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• You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.

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  Self, World

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

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• Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

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  Fighting, Balance, Instability

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

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• And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.

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  People, Trying, Terrorism

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

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• ...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?

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  Molecules, Chemistry, Carbon

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

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• I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.

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  Strong, Sleep, Eight

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• The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

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  Believe, Heart, Blood

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Ravelstein”, p.192, Penguin

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• It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.

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  Consistency, World, Consistent

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• At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

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  Noses, Faces, Lips

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

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• I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

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  Revolution, Constitution, Rebellious

  Saul Bellow, Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel (1994). “Conversations with Saul Bellow”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

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  Writing, Sea, Distraction

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• If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

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  Teacher, Women, Ability

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• A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

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  Running, Men, May

  1961 Herzog.

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• I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

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  New York, Thinking, America

  1969 In radio interview, reported in The Listener, 22 May.

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• Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

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  Heart, Self, Broken

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

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• I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

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  Clever, Thinking, Age

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• As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting - the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

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  Art, Philosophy, Science

  "The Adventures of Augie March". Book by Saul Bellow. Chapter 6, 1953.

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• I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.

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  August, Ends, Journalist

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• The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.

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  Knives, Design, Hatred

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

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• You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.

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  Book, America, Interesting

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• There is simply too much to think about.

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  Thinking, Too Much

  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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• In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?

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  Art, Real, Men

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• One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

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  Freedom, Cutting, Thinking

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.301, Penguin

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• ... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

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  Influence, Form, Fellows

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• I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.

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  Want, Monstrosity

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

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