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Saul Bellow Quotes

«I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture»
«No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.»
Author: Saul Bellow (Novelist) | About: Chicago | Keywords: Chicago, realistic, sane
«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 that make up most of what we call life.»
«As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting / the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.»
«All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.»
«There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.»
«A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out»
«I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom?which is bordered on all sides by isolation?is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life?s banquet.»
«In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries»

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