Quote #16
There are evils, as someone has pointed out, that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever - money, for instance, or war.
More from Saul Bellow
- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
- Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts al…
- 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 ma…
- Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
- Our media make crisis chatter out of news and fill our minds with anxious phantoms of the real thing - a summit in Helsinki, a treaty in Eg…
- A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.
- 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…
- 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 hea…