Saul Bellow's Quotations

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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
Saul Bellow 

What is art but a way of seeing?
Saul Bellow 

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

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

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow 

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Saul Bellow 

Conquered people tend to be witty.
Saul Bellow 

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow 

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow 

"[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."^[32]

"I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction."^[33]

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."^[34]

"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."^[35]