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Saul Bellow1915–2005

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for.

Saul Bellow on life and death

Nobel Prize lecture (12 December 1976)

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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
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I 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.’
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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