#Saul bellow

[quotespile]

Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too.

Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King

#literature #quotes #Saul Bellow #Henderson the Rain King #quote #books #lit

[nobeerreviews]

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

-- Saul Bellow

(Cluj, Romania)

#memories #insignificance #distance #saul bellow #travel photography #cluj #romania #quote #evening light

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

- Saul Bellow

Photo: Monica Belluci, 1991.

#bellow #saul bellow #quote #author #literature #arts #inspiration #attention #distraction #creativity #creative process #femme #beauty #monica belluci

[derangedrhythms]

Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

Saul Bellow, from 'Humboldt's Gift'

#saul bellow #humboldt's gift #prose #death

[a-girl-and-her-quotes]

Saul Bellow

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[molecoledigiorni]

Per me, i soldi non sono un mezzo. Sono io il mezzo dei soldi. Passano attraverso di me – tasse, assicurazioni, ipoteche, mantenimenti dei figli, affitti, parcelle legali. Tutto questo dignitoso sbagliare costa un occhio.

- Saul Bellow

#horzog #saul bellow #citazioni #libri

[nobrashfestivity]

“True.  All too true.  I have never been at home in life.  All my decay has taken place upon a child.”

- Saul Bellow,  Henderson the Rain King

#saul bellow #quotes

[litsnaps]

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[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Saul Bellow

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." -- Saul Bellow

#Saul Bellow #ignorance #deliberate ignorance #delusion #self delusion #denial #religion is a mental illness

[lascitasdelashoras]

Saul Bellow por Richard Avedon

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[quotespile]

In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings — about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes — and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.

Saul Bellow, It All Adds Up

#literature #quotes #Saul Bellow #It All Adds Up #quote #books #lit

[power-chords]

The intellectual hit writer of middlebrow literature and the culture-hungry middle-manager gangster, both consumed by ambition and anxiety and ambivalence… ;)

#humboldt’s gift #saul bellow

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

- Saul Bellow

Westminster Abbey.

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[derangedrhythms]

True. All too true. I have never been at home in life. 

Saul Bellow, from ‘Henderson the Rain King’

#saul bellow #henderson the rain king #prose #on living #dr

[thequietabsolute]

As a fanatical reader, walled in by his many books, accustomed to look down from his high windows on police cars, fire engines, ambulances, an involuted man who worked from thousands of private references and texts, I now found relevance in the explanation T. E. Lawrence had given for enlisting in the RAF – "To plunge crudely among crude men and find myself ..." How did it go, now? " ... for these remaining years of prime life." Horseplay, roughhouse, barracks obscenity, garbage detail. Yes, many men, Lawrence said, would take the death-sentence without a whimper to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. I saw what he meant.

— Saul Bellow, from Humboldt’s Gift

page. 280

#saul bellow #humboldt’s gift #literature #quote #t e lawrence #lawrence of arabia #seven pillars of wisdom #queued #finished my reread of this a month or two ago and was in awe. what an achievement. Bellow’s America’s finest ever writer in my book