I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, when formerly I had nothing, basically. So what we did with this money: we had a baby, we bought a car, and we celebrated by going to Rome, because it would be warmer and better looking.

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SAUL BELLOW I might have added, as it entered my mind to do, that some people found satisfaction in being. Being...
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SAUL LEVINE Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
SAUL WILLIAMS To have to wait four or five days is unimaginable. It makes you sick. But this is something that is ...
SAUL BERMAN 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 We attend these seminars to prepare ourselves and our crews for the upcoming balloon season, as well...
GREG SAUL everybody got it -- except Michael Moore.
SAUL ZAENTZ 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 I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn&#...
SAUL RUBINEK The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.
SAUL DAVID Yes, there is a science to the aroma of sleeping women

(AND TO THINK OF THE GIRLFRIEND i ...
SAUL WILLIAMS Yes, there is a science to the aroma of sleeping women

(and to think of the girlfriend I ...
SAUL WILLIAMS The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.
SAUL WILLIAMS the anchor man
thrown overboard
has simply rooted us
in history's repeating cycle
SAUL WILLIAMS this is her body this is her blood
SAUL WILLIAMS

I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, when formerly I had nothing, basically. So what we did with this money: we had a baby, we bought a car, and we celebrated by going to Rome, because it would be warmer and better looking.

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