Words matter. These are the best Saul Bellow Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
A man is only as good as what he loves.
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Conquered people tend to be witty.
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
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.
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
What is art but a way of seeing?
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
