Quotes by Bellow, Saul




Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 April 5, 2005), was an acclaimed Canadian-born American Jewish writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988 [1]..

"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

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

Bellow, Saul on goodness
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"Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."

Bellow, Saul on art    Share

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

Bellow, Saul on oppression    Share

"Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it -- they should, because they put it all in beforehand."

Bellow, Saul on psychoanalysis    Share

"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."

Bellow, Saul on writers and writing
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