Saul Bellow
United States
10 Jun 1915 // 5 Apr 2005
Writer
10 Jun 1915 // 5 Apr 2005
Writer
The False Impressions of Life
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 for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part... it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.
Saul Bellow, in "Speech on receiving the Nobel Prize, 1976"
Saul Bellow, in "Speech on receiving the Nobel Prize, 1976"
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays