“One’s language is a spiritual location. It houses your soul. If you were born in America all essential communication, your deepest conversations with yourself, will be in English. … Your English is the principal instrument of your humanity.”

—  Saul Bellow

Part I, p. 27
A Jewish Writer in America (2011)

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Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005

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