Solomon "Saul" Bellow, 1915 - 2005
Miami Book Fair, photo by Miami Dade County Archives (16 November 1990)
Born: 10 June 1915, Lachine, Quebec, Canada
Died: 5 April 2005, Brookline, Massachusetts
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- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. permalink
Saul Bellow - To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (1976) - A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice. permalink
Saul Bellow - Nobel Prize lecture (12 December 1976) - A writer is a reader moved to emulation. permalink
Saul Bellow - All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination. It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems! permalink
Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King (1959) - Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. permalink
Saul Bellow - Art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. permalink
Saul Bellow - Boredom is the shriek of unused capacities. permalink
Saul Bellow - Conquered people tend to be witty. permalink
Saul Bellow - Mr. Sammler's planet (1976) - Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. permalink
Saul Bellow - Mr. Sammler's planet (1976) - For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it. permalink
Saul Bellow - To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (1976) - Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. permalink
Saul Bellow - Dangling Man (1944) - Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. permalink
Saul Bellow - I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you." permalink
Saul Bellow - I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. permalink
Saul Bellow - I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available. permalink
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