“I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.”

—  Saul Bellow , book The Adventures of Augie March

Source: The Adventures of Augie March

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Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005

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