“A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.”— Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize lecture (1976)Share
“All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature.”— Saul BellowShare
“Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.”— Saul BellowShare
“Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.”— Saul BellowShare
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it.”— Toni MorrisonShare
“There is a science of intelligent living, an art of being fully human, in which we all can and ought to be creative.”— Laura Archera HuxleyShare
“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”— Edward AbbeyShare
“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”— EpictetusShare
“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
