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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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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...