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All Quotes by author - Isaac Bashevis Singer
" A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. "
Mankind
Story
Good
" A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. "
Story
Surprise
Life
" Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. "
Religion
Doubt
Thinkers
" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "
Art
Expression
Vision
" For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. "
Who
Wonderful
Effort
" I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. "
I Am
Story
Word
" I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. "
Environmental
Did
Vegetarian
" If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. "
Two
Been
Ten Commandments
" If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. "
Saying
Good
Going
" If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. "
You
Bad
Chance
" Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life. "
Kindness
Everything
Discovered
" Life is God's novel. Let him write it. "
God
Life
Novel
" Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. "
Writing
Words
Thinking
" Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. "
Brainy
Ocean
Great
" People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. "
Logic
Practice
People
" Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. "
Stronger
Love Is
Man
" The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. "
Highest
Entertainment
Character
" The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. "
Unique
Common
Find
" The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it. "
New England
New
Doing
" 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. "
Skull
True
Treasure
" 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. "
Gun
Justice
Long
" The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. "
Half
Century
Complete
" 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. "
War
Ignore
Life And Death
" The waste basket is the writer's best friend. "
Friend
Best Friend
Best
" We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice. "
Choice
Believe
Got
" We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. "
Actions
Us
Thinks
" We must believe in free will, we have no choice. "
Choice
Believe
Will
" We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. "
Only
Parents
Serious
" What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. "
Eternity
Because
Us
" When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. "
Liar
Me
I Am
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