Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Saul Bellow Quotes

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...

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.

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own...

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own...

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...

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...

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...

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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...