Author: Saul Bellow

Quotes

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

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

What is art but a way of seeing?

What is art but a way of seeing?

- 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

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

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 man is only as good as what he loves.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

- 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

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

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