Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest … - Saul Bellow

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There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists. . . Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.

Saul Bellow

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of clichÃ©s the first prize.

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

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In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

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You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

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In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)

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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

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