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 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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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 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...

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.

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...

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

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...

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...

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.