Saul Bellow

Saul BellowJune 10, 1914 - April 5, 2005

Saul Bellow (10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990. In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in...

A man is only as good as what he loves.

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

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

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