I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal. Saul Bellow More Quotes by Saul Bellow More Quotes From Saul Bellow We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution. Saul Bellow evolutionhelpingamerica You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading. Saul Bellow eyereadingtwo There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. Saul Bellow emptinesskindlife In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries. Saul Bellow expressing-lovelovecountry I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent. Saul Bellow hatewritingpeople A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice. Saul Bellow diversityjusticepromise Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. Saul Bellow gratefulartistgrace To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy. Saul Bellow bearsjoycharacter The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other. Saul Bellow knivesdesignhatred The two real problems in life are boredom and death. Saul Bellow boredomrealtwo Each man has his own batch of poems. Saul Bellow poetrymen If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. Saul Bellow of-my-mindmosesmind From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. Saul Bellow linesagescience The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern. Saul Bellow dreamheartmen You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside. Saul Bellow selfworld ... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing. Saul Bellow transformationreasonmade It is a joy to be choked with thought. Saul Bellow joy I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. Saul Bellow new-yorkamericathinking Conquered people tend to be witty. Saul Bellow wittyphilosophyart Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves. Saul Bellow selfcivilizationhands
