“We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.”

—  Saul Bellow , book Herzog

Herzog (1964) [Penguin Classics, 2003, ISBN 0-142-43729-8], p. 82
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Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005

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