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Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian and American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.

Quotes from Saul Bellow

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

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What is art but a way of seeing?

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Nature only knows one thing, and that's the present. Present, present, eternal present, like a big, huge, giant wave—colossal, bright, and beautiful, full of life and death, climbing into the sky, standing in the seas.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.