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.

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian–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...

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