It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much. Saul Bellow
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More Quotes By Saul Bellow
  1. It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

  2. A man is only as good as what he loves.

  3. Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

  4. A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

  5. The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

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