All Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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Nature
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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Religion
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
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