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

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Memory Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

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...

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...

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...

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want...

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want...

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all...

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all...