It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people. 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 evolution helping america 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 eye reading two There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. Saul Bellow emptiness kind life In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries. Saul Bellow expressing-love love country 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 hate writing people 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 diversity justice promise Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. Saul Bellow grateful artist grace To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy. Saul Bellow bears joy character 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 knives design hatred The two real problems in life are boredom and death. Saul Bellow boredom real two Each man has his own batch of poems. Saul Bellow poetry men If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. Saul Bellow of-my-mind moses mind From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. Saul Bellow lines age science The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern. Saul Bellow dream heart men You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside. Saul Bellow self world ... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing. Saul Bellow transformation reason made 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-york america thinking Conquered people tend to be witty. Saul Bellow witty philosophy art 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 self civilization hands
