The human being now simply can’t close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one’s fellows perhaps prevent full ????oning by artists.
– Saul Bellow
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- 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
- This won’t stop her from getting elected…Stupider people get elected all the time. It’s America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy. – Rachel Caine
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Life has been dark but full of light; sad, but full of joy; disappointing, but full of hope; needy but full of plenty, sick but full of health. – Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
- If I’m out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. – Saul Bellow
- Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn’t mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena. – Saul Bellow
- 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
- I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness. – Saul Bellow
- 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
- No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending. – 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
- While I cannot prevent the birds from flying over my head, I can prevent them from making a nest in my hair. – Chapter 5 My Cinderella – Santosh Avvannavar
- It takes some strength to fight. It takes greater strength to choose not to fight. – Philip Gerard Oning
- After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. – Kenneth Grahame
- Dharma -“ the foundation of all human goals be,Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties;- 25 – – Munindra Misra
- Dharma -“ the foundation of all human goals be,Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties;- 25 – – Munindra Misra
- The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. – Ray Bradbury
- And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair. – Heinrich Heine
- Patience is a garment which has never worn out. – Idries Shah
- She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world. – Kate Chopin
- We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. – Martin Luther King Jr
- Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment. – Cornelia Funke
- Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being. – Cassandra Clare
- Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists. – Marty Rubin