Quotes by Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

Explore a curated collection of 14 quotes by Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Anything that just adds information you can't use is plain dangerous. Anyway, there's too much of everything of this kin — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
He knew what retributions your devils are liable to bring for the way you treat your wife and women or behave while your — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average. — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all? — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme bor — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few. — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment. — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themsel — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don’t know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and — Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March