I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Quote by Saul Bellow

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

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

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

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'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

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

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 man is only as good as what he loves.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

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...

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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

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...

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...

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

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

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

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 good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

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

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...