I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. Saul Bellow More Quotes by Saul Bellow More Quotes From Saul Bellow A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality. Saul Bellow neutralitycreativitypersons The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it. Saul Bellow powerfuluseattention ...chaos doesn't run the whole show. Saul Bellow chaosshowsrunning She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread. Saul Bellow sweethoneymean Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep. Saul Bellow mightpeoplefall Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition. Saul Bellow ambitionbrotherfather Art is order, made out of the chaos of life. Saul Bellow chaosorderart All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. Saul Bellow aphrodisiacmarriagewriting 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 novelistsfeelingshands Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things. Saul Bellow practicesexpeople Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels. Saul Bellow hatssmokingmen Death deserves dignity. Saul Bellow dignitydeservedeath (Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born. Saul Bellow soulwould-betwo Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters Saul Bellow amusementromeour-society I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal. Saul Bellow dealscraftsdone One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine. Saul Bellow mindheartorder It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband. Saul Bellow substituteshusbandhate When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake. Saul Bellow arguingmistakefirsts The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know. Saul Bellow termheartmen ... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. Saul Bellow fellowsinfluenceform
