Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellowwas a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 June 1915
CityLachine, Canada
CountryUnited States of America
Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.
Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.
The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.
Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.
It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?
O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Live or die but don't poison everything.
Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?
Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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.