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

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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...

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...

What is art but a way of seeing?

What is art but a way of seeing?

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

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

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...

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...

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......

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

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

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

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...

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...

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...