Saul Bellow

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1915 age 0

   Born

2. 1983 age 68

   CreditZelig

3. 2005 age 89

   Died

• GWGordon Willis1 title
• MJMichael Jeter1 title
• CCCharlie Chaplin1 title
• WAWoody Allen1 title
• PTPaula Trueman1 title
• RGRobert Greenhut1 title
• MBMel Bourne1 title
• AHAdolf Hitler1 title
• JRJohn Rothman1 title
• MFMia Farrow1 title

• Influenced by

  • TMThomas Mann

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

• Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

  Saul Bellow, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

  Saul Bellow, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Conquered people tend to be witty.

  Saul Bellow, CC BY-SA 4.0

• All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination. It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!

  Saul Bellow, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it — the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.

  Saul Bellow, CC BY-SA 4.0

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

  Saul Bellow, CC BY-SA 4.0