Source: The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Ch. 1
Saul Bellow Quotes
Part I, p. 27
A Jewish Writer in America (2011)
Source: The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Ch. 6
“Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.”
Attributed in Fun Fitness for Families (2005) by James Steffen, p. 24 and later publications; also attributed to Helmut Schmidt, in The 7 Ultimate Secrets to Weight Loss (2011) by Natasa Denman, p. 31 and later publications.
Disputed
"The Distracted Public" (1990), p. 159
It All Adds Up (1994)
Part II, p. 29
A Jewish Writer in America (2011)
"The Day They Signed the Treaty" (1979), p. 224
It All Adds Up (1994)
"The Jefferson Lectures" (1977), p. 139
It All Adds Up (1994)
“Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.”
"The Sealed Treasure" (1960), p. 62
It All Adds Up (1994)
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
If women are to have the same duties as men, they must have the same nurture and education. — Plato, The Republic, Book V, trans. Benjamin Jowett, third edition, Oxford University Press, 1892 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0345#hd_lf131.3.head.017
Misattributed
Variant: So if we are going to use men and women for the same purposes, they must be taught the same things. The Republic, trans. Desmond Lee [Penguin Classics, 2003, ISBN 0-140-449140-0], p. 161
Variant: Then if we are to use the women for the same things as the men, we must teach them the same things. The Republic, trans. W. H. D. Rouse [Signet Classic, 1999, ISBN 0-451-52745-3], p. 249
"The Distracted Public" (1990)
It All Adds Up (1994)
“What is imposed on us by birth and environment is what we are called upon to overcome.”
Part I, p. 28
A Jewish Writer in America (2011)
To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (1976) [Viking/Penguin, 1998, ISBN 0-141-18075-7], p. 21
General sources
" A Second Half Life" (1991), p. 324
It All Adds Up (1994)
"My Paris" (1983), p. 235
It All Adds Up (1994)
“Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.”
Humboldt's Gift (1975), p. 265
General sources
Source: Introduction to The Closing of the American Mind (1988), p. 18
“We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.”
Herzog (1964) [Penguin Classics, 2003, ISBN 0-142-43729-8], p. 82
General sources
Source: Introduction to The Closing of the American Mind (1988), p. 16
"The Distracted Public" (1990), pp. 159-160
It All Adds Up (1994)
"Saul Bellow: Treading on the Toes of the Brahmans," interview with Lawrence Grobel in Endangered Species: Writers Talk about Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives [Da Capo, 2001, ISBN ISBN 0-306-81004-2], p. 21
General sources
“What is art but a way of seeing?”
Thomas Berger, in Being Invisible (1967)
Misattributed
"Facts That Put Fancy to Flight" (1962), p. 68
It All Adds Up (1994)
Source: The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Ch. 1 (opening line)
Foreword to The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (1987)
General sources
“A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.”
"Cousins," from Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984), p. 263
General sources
"The Sealed Treasure" (1960), p. 60
It All Adds Up (1994)
“No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.”
Humboldt's Gift (1975), p. 452
General sources
"Facts That Put Fancy to Flight" (1962), p. 67
It All Adds Up (1994)
Source: Introduction to The Closing of the American Mind (1988), p. 15
"A Matter of the Soul" (1975), pp. 75-76
It All Adds Up (1994)
The Dean's December (1982), ch. 18, p. 298
General sources