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Saul Bellow quotes about people

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
Saul Bellow quote: "You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially..."
You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few. Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow quote: "Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best..."
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. Saul Bellow
The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young) 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
I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery. Saul Bellow
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51) Saul Bellow
New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it. Saul Bellow
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment. Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow quote: "People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be..."
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow quote: "Conquered people tend to be witty."
Conquered people tend to be witty. Saul Bellow

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