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

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Advice Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

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

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...

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...

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

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.

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...

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......

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

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.

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a...

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one...

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one...