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"28 Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 21 November 1902. Died: 24 July 1991 | Writer |
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Believe Choice Got No Choice
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Bad Being Chance Going
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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.

Destroy Gun He Justice
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Between Creator Every Experiences
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Become Chickens Did Health
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
God Him Life Novel
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Doubt Part Religion Religious
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Analysis Character Entertainment Highest
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Also Betray Else Somebody
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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Am Course Day Each
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Am Boy Call Grown
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Also Children Only Parents
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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.

Because Full How Life
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Actions He His Know
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Because Creates Eternity Nature
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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.

Even His Man Originality
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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.

Actually Becomes Begins Between
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
Believe Choice Free Free Will
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Effort Great Make Miracles
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Conscience Doing England Enjoying
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Century Complete Flop Half
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Art Common Find Greatness
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

About Behind Great Learnt
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Basically Good Good Writer Mankind
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Great Island Knowledge Little
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Discovered Everything Kindness Life
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Convictions Love Love Is Man
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Basket Best Best Friend Friend
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Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes & Sayings