The earth is a huge ball which nothing holds up in space except its own motion and magnetism, and we conscious things who occupy it believe we have t… - Saul Bellow

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The earth is a huge ball which nothing holds up in space except its own motion and magnetism, and we conscious things who occupy it believe we have to move too, in our own space. We can't allow ourselves to lie down and not to do our share and imitate the greater entity.

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About Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988.

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Birth Name: Solomon Bellows

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