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

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Memory Quotes

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...

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...

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......

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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 good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

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...

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...

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...

I've told my wife that if the Hispanic population in NASCAR keeps growing, I'm going...

I've told my wife that if the Hispanic population in NASCAR keeps growing, I'm going...

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with...

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with...

My job isn't to strike guys out, its to get them out, sometimes by striking...

My job isn't to strike guys out, its to get them out, sometimes by striking...

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am...

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am...