Author: Saul Bellow

Quotes

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

- Saul Bellow

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

- Saul Bellow

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

- Saul Bellow

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

- Saul Bellow

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

- Saul Bellow

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

- Saul Bellow

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

- Saul Bellow

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

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

- Saul Bellow

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

- Saul Bellow

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