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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy

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

- Saul Bellow | America and Americans Quotes

A man is only as good as what he loves.

- Saul Bellow | Love Quotes

The truth is, we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult, the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.

- Saul Bellow | Writers and Writing Quotes

There is today an extraordinary interest with the data of modern experience per se. Our absorption in our contemporary historical state is very high right now. It's not altogether unlike a similar situation in seventeenth century Holland, where wealthy merchants wanted their portraits done with all their blemishes included. It is the height of egotism, in a sense, to think even one's blemishes are of significance. So today Americans seem to want their writers to reveal all their weaknesses, their meannesses, to celebrate their very confusions. And they want it in the most direct possible way - they want it served up neat, as it were, without the filtering and generalizing power of fiction.

- Saul Bellow | Writers and Writing Quotes

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

- Saul Bellow | Writers and Writing Quotes

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it.

- Saul Bellow | Writers and Writing Quotes

Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

- Saul Bellow | Decisions Quotes