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SAUL LEVINE Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
SAUL WILLIAMS To have to wait four or five days is unimaginable. It makes you sick. But this is something that is ...
SAUL BERMAN He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather...
SAUL BELLOW I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Sin...
SAUL BELLOW We attend these seminars to prepare ourselves and our crews for the upcoming balloon season, as well...
GREG SAUL everybody got it -- except Michael Moore.
SAUL ZAENTZ Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you ar...
SAUL BELLOW