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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not...

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not...

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

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

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever......

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever......

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between...

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more...

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the...

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the...

To be free is to have achieved your life.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Live for yourself -- there's no one else More worth living for Begging hands and...

Live for yourself -- there's no one else More worth living for Begging hands and...