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.
– Saul Bellow
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- 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. – Saul Bellow
- No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending. – Saul Bellow
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- Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn’t mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena. – Saul Bellow
- The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink. – Mico Monsalve
- If I’m out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. – Saul Bellow
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- Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. – Saul Bellow
- What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn’t to make a nobility of us all? – Saul Bellow
- Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
- Only I had dry eyes, a dry heart. – VC Andrews
- People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. – Saul Bellow
- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow
- You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time. – Saul Bellow
- I discovered, however, in the early days of our marriage that, in having her way, she put my interests ahead of her own. – Saul Bellow
- Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there’s the devil to pay. – Saul Bellow
- One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. – Saul Bellow
- At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth. – Saul Bellow
- I am not an ornithologist-”I am a bird. – Saul Bellow
- Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don’t want to lie more than is average. – Saul Bellow
- Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction. – Saul Bellow
- Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That’s how you can tell it’s valuable. – Saul Bellow
- Maybe America didn’t need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we. – Saul Bellow
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- The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep. – Saul Bellow
- Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same. – Saul Bellow
- The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know. – Saul Bellow
- You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow
- Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy. – Saul Bellow
- A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. – Leopold Stokowski
- Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return. – Munia Khan
- I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine! – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
- Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving
- Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. – Henry Thomas Buckle
- Great minds believe they will succeed.Average minds doubt they can succeed.Small minds don’t even try to succeed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones? – Onyi Anyado
- Great minds birth great ideas.Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas.Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun. – CS Lewis
- You cannot conquer the mind of a man, if you do not know his heart and you cannot win over his heart, if so you do not know his mind. – Anita B Sulser PhD