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Saul Bellow, born on June 10, 1915, in Canada, was an American Jewish writer. His works are known for their profound psychological insights and unique sense of humor. Bellow won the Nobel Prize in Literature. His representative works include 'Herzog', 'The Adventures of Augie March', and 'Henderson the Rain King'.

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“Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.”

Thinking Wells Heart Doe Country Whole Community Consciousness Television Tvs Isolated Communion Suggestions Vicinity

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?”

Heart Mean Doe My Heart

Author:Saul Bellow

“A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?”

Knows Writing Heart Long Community

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“It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.”

People Giving Heart Deny Selfish Selfish People

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.”

Heart Self Broken Hatred Ruins Self Hatred

Book:Herzog

Source: Herzog

“The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.”

Mind Believe Heart Blood Flesh Dry Shrinks

Book:Ravelstein

Source: Ravelstein

“In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)”

People Thinking Heart Mean Community Leader Class Dangerous Citizens Criminals Sanctions Indignation Parlor

Book:Herzog

Source: Herzog

“The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.”

Knows Men Heart Term Mines Knowing God

Book:Mr. Sammler's Planet

Source: Mr. Sammler's Planet

“One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.”

Mind Heart Order Mines Bears Odd Rays Angle

Book:Humboldt's Gift

Source: Humboldt's Gift

“There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.”

Want Heart Said Passion Voice Happened My Heart Stronger Spokes Afternoon My Passion Disturbance

Author:Saul Bellow

“I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'”

Love Writing Heart Teach Hell Judgment Rely Rejection Bad Things Rejected Writing Life Rejecting

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“The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.”

Men Heart May Dream Patterns Significant Significance

Author:Saul Bellow

About the Author

Born: June 10, 1915
Died: April 5, 2005
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 287

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