“No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.”
Saul Bellow book Humboldt's Gift
Humboldt's Gift (1975), p. 452
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Quotes from bookHumboldt's Gift
Humboldt's Gift is a 1975 novel by Canadian-American author Saul Bellow. It won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.
“Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.”
Saul Bellow book Humboldt's Gift
Humboldt's Gift (1975), p. 265
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Saul Bellow book Humboldt's Gift
Humboldt's Gift (1975) [Penguin Classics, 1996, ISBN 0-140-18944-0], p. 5
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“I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.”
Saul Bellow book Humboldt's Gift
Humboldt's Gift (1975), p. 159
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“It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.”
Saul Bellow book Humboldt's Gift
Source: Humboldt's Gift
