Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.Saul Bellow
Conquered people tend to be witty.
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The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.
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I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
Saul Bellow
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
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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