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Saul Bellow

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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.


— Saul Bellow


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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.


— Saul Bellow


#call #dyed #hand #her #own

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


— Saul Bellow


#advice #ask #looking #usually

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.


— Saul Bellow


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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.


— Saul Bellow


#get #men #out #pond #stone

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


— Saul Bellow


#good #more #novel #scientific #scientific study

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.


— Saul Bellow


#between #call #false #few #impressions

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.


— Saul Bellow


#artist #be grateful #beyond #grace #grateful

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.


— Saul Bellow


#california #country #like #limb #me

Conquered people tend to be witty.


— Saul Bellow


#people #tend #witty






About Saul Bellow

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Did you know about Saul Bellow?

When Bellow was nine his family moved to the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago the city that was to form the backdrop of many of his novels. " Bellow's protagonists in one shape or another all wrestle with what Corde (Albert Corde the dean in "The Dean's December") called "the big-scale insanities of the 20th century. ) Bellow celebrated his birthday in June although he may have been born in July (in the Jewish community it was customary to record the Hebrew date of birth which does not always coincide with the Gregorian calendar).

Bellow grew up as an insolent slum kid a "thick-necked" rowdy and an immigrant from Quebec. " This transcendence of the "unutterably dismal" (a phrase from Dangling Man) is achieved if it can be achieved at all through a "ferocious assimilation of learning" (Hitchens) and an emphasis on nobility. In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture of entertaining adventure drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act or prevent us from acting and that can be called the dilemma of our age.

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