Best Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Top 10)
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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.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it's dark
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
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In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
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What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.
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More Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
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As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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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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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.
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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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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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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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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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Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.
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In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
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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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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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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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They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
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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.
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