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Saul Bellow quotes

American Novelist June 10, 1914 – April 5, 2005

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Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out—a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your pain schedule. Endless categories. First, physical causes—like arthritis, gallstones, menstrual cramps. New category, injured vanity, betrayal, swindle, injustice. But the hardest items of all have to do with love. The question then is: So why does everybody persist? If love cuts them up so much.... Saul Bellow
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? Saul Bellow
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. Saul Bellow
On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay about the doorways of butcher shops and fruit stores. And the great, great crowd, the inexhaustible current of millions of every race and kind pouring out, pressing round, of every race and genius, possessors of every human secret, antique and future, in every face the refinement of one particular motive or essence - I labor, I spend, I strive, I... Saul Bellow
Well, I need a job. Something that'll leave me the free time I want."I like the way you arrange your life. What do you intend to do with this free time?"I intend to use it." I didn't like the implication of this. Why should he need his time free and I be questioned? Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow quote: "You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering..."
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half. Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow quote: "You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on..."
You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it. Saul Bellow
We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire. Saul Bellow
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? Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow quote: "Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of..."
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. Saul Bellow
He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible. Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow quote: "A man is only as good as what he loves."
A man is only as good as what he loves. Saul Bellow
It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart. Saul Bellow
Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love. Saul Bellow
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

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