# Saul Bellow

- Quotes: 3
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-bellow

## Books

- [The Adventures of Augie March](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-bellow/the-adventures-of-augie-march.md) — 3 quotes

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> As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting — the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

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> I am an American, Chicago born — Chicago, that somber city — and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.

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> Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

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