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(The disclosures of corruption won’t go very far; the worst of the bad guys have little to fear.)

Bellow, Saul. Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories (p. 267). Odyssey Editions. Kindle Edition.

"It may be that the dissolution of the bonds of the world affects Jews in different ways. The whole mass of ideas that have been current until now, the very bonds of the world …"

Bellow, Saul. Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories (p. 246). Odyssey Editions. Kindle Edition.

"A beef, a hope, a way of life or salvation, a protest. How was it that the accumulated gripes of all the ages took off so when transplanted to America?"

Bellow, Saul. Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories (p. 200). Odyssey Editions. Kindle Edition.

"To be an intellectual was to be a parvenu. The business of these parvenus was to purge themselves of their first wild impulses and of their crazy baseness, to change themselves, to become disinterested. To love truth. To become great."

Bellow, Saul. Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories (p. 174). Odyssey Editions. Kindle Edition.

"Victor was right, you know, about the way that Star Wars flicks corrupted everybody, implanted mistrust of your own flesh and blood. Well, okay, but now I see how to extricate my elephant."

Bellow, Saul. Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories (p. 163). Odyssey Editions. Kindle Edition.

"Among the rest—parents, patriarchs, angels, God—there was yourself."

Bellow, Saul. Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories (p. 118). Odyssey Editions. Kindle Edition.

“Would you say our leaders are fictional personages?” said Katrina. “Wouldn’t you?”

Bellow, Saul. Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories (p. 102). Odyssey Editions. Kindle Edition.

Canada’s chief entertainment—it has no choice—is to watch (from a gorgeous setting) what happens in our country. The disaster is that there is no other show.

Bellow, Saul. Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories (p. 53). Odyssey Editions. Kindle Edition.

"Doing eighteenth-century music on PBS is not very much like taking charge of U.S. foreign policy and coping with drunkards and liars in the Congress or the executive branch."

Bellow, Saul. Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories (p. 22). Odyssey Editions. Kindle Edition.

"The ghost of T. S. Eliot, interviewed by Ginsberg on the fantail of a ship somewhere in death’s waters, admits to having done little spy jobs for Angleton."

Bellow, Saul. Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories (p. 14). Odyssey Editions. Kindle Edition.