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Saul Bellow quotes about him

American Novelist June 10, 1914 – April 5, 2005

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External life being so mighty, the instruments so huge and terrible, the performances so great, the thoughts so great and threatening, you produce a someone who can exist before it. You invent a man who can stand before the terrible appearances. This way he can't get justice and he can't give justice, but he can live. And this is what mere humanity always does. It's made up of these inventors or artists, millions and millions of them, each in his own way trying to recruit other people to play... Saul Bellow
Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that... Saul Bellow
it greatly bothered him that I had such a flunky job, washing cages and sweeping up dogs' hair; and also that I was no longer a college man but trying to keep up on Helmholtz who was a dead number to him; in other words, that I should be of the unformed darkened-out mass. It was often that way with me, that people would feel the world owed me distinctness. Saul Bellow
Going up, Herzong found a bouquet of violets, dropped from the hand of a woman. Perhaps a bride. Little perfume remained in them, but they made him remember... These violets smelled to him like female tears. He gave them a burial in the trash ca, hoping they had not dropped from a disappointed hand. Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow quote: "A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has..."
A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become. Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow quote: "Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his..."
Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken. Saul Bellow
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. Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow quote: "Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him..."
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow quote: "A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that..."
A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him. Saul Bellow

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