SAUL BELLOW QUOTES V

Canadian-American writer (1915-2005)


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Fitness was not his cup of tea. He treated his body like a vehicle -- a motorbike that he raced at top speed along the rim of the Grand Canyon.

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

SAUL BELLOW

Seize the Day


We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

SAUL BELLOW

"A Second Half Life,", It All Adds Up


I am quite prepared to admit that being habitual liars and self-deluders, we have good cause to fear the truth, but I'm not at all ready to stop hoping. There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.

SAUL BELLOW

The Paris Review, winter 1966


A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

SAUL BELLOW

attributed, The Hidden Writer


You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

SAUL BELLOW

attributed, Something About the Author