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Saul Bellow

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

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

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In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

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You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

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In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)

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