Quote by Saul Bellow
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are gr

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. – Saul Bellow

Other quotes by Saul Bellow

The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. – Saul Bellow

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Presidents Day
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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. – Saul Bellow

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Art
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Other Quotes from
America
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. – G.K. Chesterton

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America

The Constitution of the United States of America, Article V, Section 1: There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia. – Dave Barry

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Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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America

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. – Marshall McLuhan

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War is the statesmans game, the priests delight, the lawyers jest, the hired assassins trade. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. – Aaron Allston

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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. – H. L. Mencken

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