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“It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.”
― Saul Bellow

“Well, don't build me up so, and you won't have to tear me down.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures Of Augie March

“Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“What use was war without also love?”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures Of Augie March

“Was she not so simple and free of ulterior motives as she looked? Well, neither was I.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures Of Augie March

“Nobody should be a mystery intentionally. Unintentionally is mysterious enough.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures Of Augie March

“IF THE GREAT ANDROMEDA GALAXY had to depend on you to hold it up, where would it be now but fallen way to hell?”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures Of Augie March

“my feelings were big, sad, comfortless, of a thinking animal, my heart acting like an orb filled too big for my chest, not from revulsion, which I have to say I didn’t feel, but over-all general misery.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures Of Augie March

“Some people, if they didn’t make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep,” said Mintouchian. “Even the Son of Man made it hard so He would have enough in common with our race to be its God.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures Of Augie March

“Sometimes I wonder,” I said, “if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn’t make sure first that they can defend themselves.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures Of Augie March

“And this is what mere humanity always does. It's made up of these inventors or artists, millions and millions of them, each in his own way trying to recruit other people to play a supporting role and sustain him in his make-believe. The great chiefs and leaders recruit the greatest number, and that's what their power is. There's one image that gets out in front to lead the rest and can impose its claim to being genuine with more force than others, or one voice enlarged to thunder is heard above the others. Then a huge invention, which is the invention maybe of the world itself, and of nature, becomes the actual world - with cities, factories, public buildings, railroads, armies, dams, prisons, and movies - becomes the actuality. That’s the struggle of humanity, to recruit others to your version of what’s real. Then even the flowers and the moss on the stones become the moss and the flowers of a version.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice”
― Andre Gide

“There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.”
― Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King

“A writer is a reader moved to emulation.”
― Saul Bellow

“Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.”
― William Faulkner

“You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.”
― Bob Marely

“Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
― Mark Twain