There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Quote by Saul Bellow

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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'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.

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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 man is only as good as what he loves.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

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...

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

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.

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.

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...