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

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

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

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

Saul Bellow

Accuracy

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

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

Saul Bellow

Memories

Needs

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Saul Bellow

Life

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Saul Bellow

Man

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

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

Saul Bellow

Study

Worth

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

Saul Bellow

Men

Fool

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

Life

Longing

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

Saul Bellow

Country

Rest

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

Saul Bellow

Goal

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Saul Bellow

People

Witty