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Saul Bellow on Books

1915–2005 Canada

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Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

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.

It is risky in a book of ideas to speak in one’s own voice, but it reminds us that the sources of the truest truths are inevitably profoundly personal.

Introduction to The Closing of the American Mind (1988)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Saul Bellow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.