Saul Bellow quote: "And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is something great, something into which his being, and all beings can go. <br />He does not need meaning as long as such intensity has scope. <br />Because then it is self-evident; it is meaning."

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
SAUL BELLOW

Every other man spoke a language entirely his own, which he had figured out by private thinking; he ...
SAUL BELLOW

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
SAUL BELLOW

In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of ...
SAUL BELLOW

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the eas...
SAUL BELLOW

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

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for ins...
SAUL BELLOW

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hol...
SAUL BELLOW

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
SAUL BELLOW

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you ar...
SAUL BELLOW

The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in Am...
SAUL BELLOW

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if ...
SAUL BELLOW

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately...
SAUL BELLOW

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argum...
SAUL BELLOW

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most ...
SAUL BELLOW

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
SAUL BELLOW

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It h...
SAUL BELLOW

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative cen...
SAUL BELLOW

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
SAUL BELLOW

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
SAUL BELLOW

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
SAUL BELLOW

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.
SAUL BELLOW

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

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn...
SAUL BELLOW

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - ...
SAUL BELLOW

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
SAUL BELLOW

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you h...
SAUL BELLOW

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argumen...
SAUL BELLOW

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me ...
SAUL BELLOW

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately...
SAUL BELLOW

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOW

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
SAUL BELLOW

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOW

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
SAUL BELLOW

Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink ...
SAUL BELLOW

Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also aga...
SAUL BELLOW

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote...
SAUL BELLOW

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand
SAUL BELLOW

Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...
SAUL BELLOW

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
SAUL BELLOW

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
SAUL BELLOW

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if ...
SAUL BELLOW

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more compr...
SAUL BELLOW

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOW

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
SAUL BELLOW

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity ...
SAUL BELLOW

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
SAUL BELLOW

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we l...
SAUL BELLOW

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
SAUL BELLOW

For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition....
SAUL BELLOW

A man is only as good as what he loves
SAUL BELLOW

What is art but a way of seeing?
SAUL BELLOW

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our...
SAUL BELLOW

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries
SAUL BELLOW

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
SAUL BELLOW

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - some...
SAUL BELLOW

There is something terribly nervous-making about a modern existence. For one thing, it's all the thi...
SAUL BELLOW

I'm an American, Chicago born.
SAUL BELLOW

Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaboratel...
SAUL BELLOW

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
SAUL BELLOW

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most...
SAUL BELLOW

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out
SAUL BELLOW

I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own ...
SAUL BELLOW

reality comes from giving an account of yourself. (Augie March)
SAUL BELLOW

Conquered people tend to be witty.
SAUL BELLOW

A man is only as good as what he loves.
SAUL BELLOW

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal...
SAUL BELLOW

He was looking for the Knight of Faith, the real prodigy. That real prodigy, having set its relation...
SAUL BELLOW

Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.
SAUL BELLOW

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic afflict...
SAUL BELLOW

I might have added, as it entered my mind to do, that some people found satisfaction in being. Being...
SAUL BELLOW

He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather...
SAUL BELLOW

I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Sin...
SAUL BELLOW

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you ar...
SAUL BELLOW

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
SAUL BELLOW

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
SAUL BELLOW

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted an...
SAUL BELLOW

As the wicked flee when none pursueth, so does the middle-class wrestle when none contendeth. They c...
SAUL BELLOW

. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some cri...
SAUL BELLOW

One of the bonds between Lily and me is that we both suffer with our teeth. She is twenty years my j...
SAUL BELLOW

All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is thi...
SAUL BELLOW

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no ...
SAUL BELLOW

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
SAUL BELLOW

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewher...
SAUL BELLOW

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not sma...
SAUL BELLOW

You don't know the meaning of true love if you think it can be deliberately selected. You just love,...
SAUL BELLOW

Yes, these business people have great energy. There’s a question as to what’s burned to produce ...
SAUL BELLOW

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted an...
SAUL BELLOW

No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ...
SAUL BELLOW, HERZOG

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black f...
SAUL ALINSKY

By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire...
SAUL DAVID

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when...
SAUL ALINSKY

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara - are as germane to our highly technological, computerized ...
SAUL ALINSKY

Last guys don't finish nice.
SAUL ALINSKY

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have
SAUL ALINSKY

Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy ...
SAUL ALINSKY

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your r...
SAUL ALINSKY

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.
SAUL WILLIAMS

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.
SAUL PERLMUTTER

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of bla...
SAUL WILLIAMS

Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting...
SAUL WILLIAMS

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative...
SAUL LANDAU

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SAUL STEINBERG

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
SAUL ALINSKY

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
SAUL ALINSKY

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized...
SAUL ALINSKY

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abs...
SAUL ALINSKY

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father ...
SAUL ALINSKY

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerize...
SAUL ALINSKY

Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.
SAUL LANDAU

Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, a...
SAUL DAVID

It is surely no coincidence that Napoleon's two greatest heroes were Alexander the Great and Jul...
SAUL DAVID

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward...
SAUL ALINSKY

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.
SAUL LEITER

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
SAUL WILLIAMS

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to t...
SAUL ALINSKY

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the ef...
SAUL WILLIAMS

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the m...
SAUL DAVID

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphin...
SAUL STEINBERG

What makes anyone think that I'm any good?
SAUL LEITER

I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being tha...
SAUL LEITER

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
SAUL LEITER

I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want ...
SAUL LEITER

I am not immersed in self-admiration.
SAUL LEITER

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.
SAUL LEITER

I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.
SAUL LEITER

I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken ...
SAUL LEITER

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.
SAUL LEITER

When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize...
SAUL LEITER

My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer - profoundly and deeply unhappy.
SAUL LEITER

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
SAUL LEITER

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. ...
SAUL LEITER

There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real wo...
SAUL LEITER

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
SAUL LEITER

If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and ...
SAUL ALINSKY

The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.
SAUL ALINSKY

The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That'...
SAUL WILLIAMS

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang a...
SAUL PERLMUTTER

My forebears were fantastically wealthy Armenians who came to England from India in the 19th century...
SAUL DAVID

I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in th...
SAUL LEITER

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like...
PETER SAUL

I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, wh...
PETER SAUL

I enjoy finding a low subject and bringing it up high. I think with strong technique, you can glamor...
PETER SAUL

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack h...
SAUL ALINSKY

Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time w...
SAUL ALINSKY

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no...
SAUL WILLIAMS

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.
SAUL LEITER

Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and ...
SAUL LEITER

To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of ...
SAUL ALINSKY

There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill...
SAUL DAVID

In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Secon...
SAUL DAVID

The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus endin...
SAUL DAVID

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resent...
SAUL ALINSKY

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical t...
SAUL KRIPKE

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act f...
SAUL ALINSKY

Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the...
SAUL DAVID

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of ...
SAUL STEINBERG

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gra...
SAUL PERLMUTTER

It's sweating the small stuff.
SAUL KLEIN

When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the o...
PETER SAUL

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind en...
SAUL GRIFFITH

Our plans are to keep the colt, and of course we've already started dreaming. I guess that's why we'...
AL SAUL

Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The mov...
SAUL ZAENTZ

I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to wri...
SAUL DAVID

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.
SAUL PERLMUTTER

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues...
SAUL ALINSKY

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
SAUL ALINSKY

You are so much more exposed. With an acoustic instrument, so much is laid bare to the ear, and ther...
SAUL GROPMAN

We're excited because it's tripled what we thought it would do. It's 19,000 square feet, great fun. ...
AL SAUL

She had a colt by Western Hanover. He's gorgeous according to Bob Brady, who told me that for a firs...
AL SAUL

,Said Shotgun to the Head.
SAUL WILLIAMS

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhoo...
SAUL STEINBERG

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in liv...
SAUL WILLIAMS

'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for R...
SAUL ALINSKY

History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real l...
SAUL DAVID

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true...
SAUL DAVID

It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun ...
SAUL PERLMUTTER

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiat...
SAUL WILLIAMS

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.
SAUL KRIPKE

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
SAUL STEINBERG

Look what happened with the redesigned Expedition last year,
SAUL RUBIN

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world...
SAUL WILLIAMS

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhoo...
SAUL STEINBERG

Give a landlord an inch and he'll build an apartment house
SAUL ANTIN

I wasn't asking. I don't need permission.
SAUL ANUZIS

Demand is as strong as ever and is likely to remain so. Prices are starting to weaken, but volumes c...
SAUL ESLAKE

By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December...
SAUL DAVID

the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past...
SAUL WILLIAMS

Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!
SAUL GORN

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
SAUL STEINBERG

Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang.
SAUL LANDAU

It does from a distance kind of resemble a marine animal. You can?t find one detail on that engine t...
GREG SAUL

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
SAUL WILLIAMS

People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is ...
SAUL STEINBERG

The artist is an educator of artists of the future . . . who are able to understand and in the proce...
SAUL STEINBERG

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, O' the cheating that goes on
SAUL ANTIN

We've been a very competitive mid-major program. We're starting to come together. It's a good group....
SAUL PHILLIPS

People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the ...
SAUL ALINSKY

I cannot remember there being as many young kids as today. What draws them is the hardest conservati...
SAUL ANUZIS

If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.
SAUL PERLMUTTER

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