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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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“You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.”

Ifs Knows Two Eye Choices Reading Given Hell Havens Criticism Critical Awful Reform Panic Frantic Glare Two Choices

Author:Saul Bellow

“Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.”

Knows Years Lasts Parent Pieces Losing Window Glasses Driving Plates Shattered Splinters Losing A Parent

Book:Saul Bellow: Letters

Source: Saul Bellow: Letters

“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 is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.”

Knows Should Sometimes Repeats Originality Location Mississippi

Book:Mr. Sammler's Planet

Source: Mr. Sammler's Planet

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

Ifs Knows One Thing Oppression Oppressed Accuracy Suppression

Author:Saul Bellow

“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.”

Knows Should Conscious Definitions Unconscious Psychoanalysis Analysts

Book:The Dean's December

Source: The Dean's December

“How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.”

Knows Should Humans Human Beings Should I

Book:The Adventures of Augie March

Source: The Adventures of Augie March

“She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.”

Ifs Knows Mean Sweet Cold Spread Honey

Book:Humboldt's Gift

Source: Humboldt's Gift

“I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.”

Knows May Mean Has Beens Stills Know How Love You Terrible Lucky Disappointed Disappointed Love

Book:The Adventures of Augie March

Source: The Adventures of Augie March

“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

“I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.”

Knows Done Deals Crafts

Book:Conversations with Saul Bellow

Source: Conversations with Saul Bellow

“Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.”

People Ifs Knows World Feels Trying May Littles Real States Use Reality Noble Miserable Tragic Real World Surprising Exceed Something Better Actuality Fabrication Often Can

Author:Saul Bellow

“The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?”

Knows Courses Students Late Asking Philosopher Professors Metaphysics Morris

Book:Humboldt's Gift

Source: Humboldt's Gift

“The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.”

Knows Real Spirit Growth Existence Aim

Book:Mr. Sammler's Planet

Source: Mr. Sammler's Planet

“It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.”

Knows Feet Humility Soldier Disgrace

Book:DANGLING MAN

Source: DANGLING MAN

About the Author

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

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