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

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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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...