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Saul Bellow quotes about reading

American Novelist June 10, 1914 – April 5, 2005

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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
Ours is a bourgeois civilization. I am not using this term in its Marxian sense. Chicken! In the vocabularies of modern art and religion it is bourgeois to consider that the universe was made for our safe use and to give us comfort, ease, and support. Light travels at a quarter of a million miles per second so that we can see to comb our hair or read in the paper that ham hocks are cheaper than yesterday. De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses... Saul Bellow
But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was. Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow quote: "We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next."
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next. Saul Bellow

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