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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

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...

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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

What is art but a way of seeing?

What is art but a way of seeing?

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that...

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that...