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Saul Bellow Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?”
— Saul Bellow, Saul Bellow Against the Grain(Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction)
Tagged: kindness, Meaning, Good Actions
“It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.”
— Saul Bellow, A Silver Dish
Tagged: selfishness, Love, Denial, Deprived, Selfless, Magazine, fiction
“I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don’t you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.”
— Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Tagged: Disappointment, Love, struggles
“We are funny creatures. We don’t see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.”
— Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
Tagged: Poetic, Creatures, Stars
“Unless you’re completely exploded, there’s always something to be grateful for.”
— Saul Bellow, Herzog (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: grateful, thankful, Positivity, Appreciation
“A man is only as good as what he loves.”
— Saul Bellow, Seize the Day(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Love, Goodness, Passion
“If I am out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.”
— Saul Bellow, Herzog (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: first lines of books
“Shortly after dawn, or what would have been dawn in a normal sky, Mr. Artur Sammler with his bushy eye took in the books and papers of his West Side bedroom and suspected strongly that they were the wrong books, the wrong papers.”
— Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: first lines of books, New York City
“I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.”
— Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Tagged: first lines of books
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