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Author: Saul Bellow
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  1. 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.
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  2. Saul Bellow _ Herzog

    Herzog abandoned this theme with characteristic abruptness
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  3. Saul Bellow _ The Adventures of Augie March

    The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency {112}.
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  4. Saul Bellow _ The Adventures of Augie March

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

    What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length and breadth of America. Energetic people who build against pains and uncertainties, as weaker ones merely hope against them.
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  6. Saul Bellow _ The Adventures of Augie March

    Look out! Oh, you chump and weak fool, you are one of a humanity that can't be numbered and not more than the dust of metals scattered in a magnetic field and clinging to the lines of force, determined by laws, eating, sleeping, employed, conveyed, obedient, and subject. So why hunt for still more ways to lose liberty? Why go toward, and not instead run from, the huge drag that threatens to wear out your ribs, rub away your face, splinter your teeth? No, stay away!Be the wiser person who crawls, rides, runs, walks to his solitary ends used to solitary effort, who procures for himself and heeds the fears that are the kings of this world. Ah, they don't give you much of a break, these kings! Many a dead or dying face lies or drifts under them.
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  7. Saul Bellow _ The Adventures of Augie March

    Well, I need a job. Something that'll leave me the free time I want.""I like the way you arrange your life. What do you intend to do with this free time?""I intend to use it." I didn't like the implication of this. Why should he need his time free and I be questioned?
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  8. Saul Bellow _ Henderson the Rain King

    Fantasia, fantasia, fantasia. Si trasforma in realtà. Essa sorregge, essa altera, essa redime!
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  9. Saul Bellow _ The Adventures of Augie March

    it greatly bothered him that I had such a flunky job, washing cages and sweeping up dogs' hair; and also that I was no longer a college man but trying to keep up on Helmholtz who was a dead number to him; in other words, that I should be of the unformed darkened-out mass. It was often that way with me, that people would feel the world owed me distinctness.
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  10. Saul Bellow _ The Adventures of Augie March

    I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When it was time to have them, there was no telling how I picked them from the air.
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  11. Saul Bellow _ The Adventures of Augie March

    The sun of that chilishness goes on shining even when the larger bodies of hotter stars have risen to smelt you and cover you with their influence. The recenter stars may be more critical, more in the eye, but that earlier sun still remains a long time.
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  12. Saul Bellow _ Herzog

    He wondered at times whether he didn't belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for docility or ingenuous good will they were to be shielded from the worst brutalities in life.
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