Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Memory Quotes

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

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

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 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...

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.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

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...

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...

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 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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.