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

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Memory Quotes

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...

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 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...

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......

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

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...

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them...

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them...

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired...

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired...

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.