A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Quote by Saul Bellow

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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended...

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended...

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night...

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night...

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.

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.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need...

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need...

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was...

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was...

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...

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...

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put...

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put...

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms...

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms...

None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license...

None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license...

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men...

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men...

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.