A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

Quote by Saul Bellow

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion...

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen...

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen...

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not...

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not...

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a...

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a...

What is art but a way of seeing?

What is art but a way of seeing?

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them...

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them...

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business...

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business...

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on...

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on...

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones...

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones...

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America...

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America...

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You...

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You...

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business...

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business...