In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

Quote by Saul Bellow

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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...

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

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.

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......

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

What is art but a way of seeing?

What is art but a way of seeing?

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'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...

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...

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 good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

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

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...

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...

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the...

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the...

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living...

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living...