Quotes from The Adventures of Augie March — Saul Bellow
1915–2005 Canada
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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.
The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
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.
The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
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.
The Adventures of Augie March (1953)