Canadian-American writer (1915-2005)
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
SAUL BELLOW
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Seize the Day
Fitness was not his cup of tea. He treated his body like a vehicle -- a motorbike that he raced at top speed along the rim of the Grand Canyon.
SAUL BELLOW
Ravelstein
I am quite prepared to admit that being habitual liars and self-deluders, we have good cause to fear the truth, but I'm not at all ready to stop hoping. There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.
SAUL BELLOW
The Paris Review, winter 1966
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.
SAUL BELLOW
"A Second Half Life,", It All Adds Up
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
SAUL BELLOW
attributed, Something About the Author
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
SAUL BELLOW
attributed, The Hidden Writer