As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting the nursery games of humankind,…

Quote by Saul Bellow

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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...

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...

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...

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......

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...

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

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

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

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.

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...

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know...

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know...

Jobs are physically easier, but the worker now takes home worries instead of an aching...

Jobs are physically easier, but the worker now takes home worries instead of an aching...

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

Framed to make women false.

Framed to make women false.