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Isaac Bashevis Singer Inspirational Quotes (82)

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In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.
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There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.
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There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.
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But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. (Hanka)
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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All is foreseen but the choice is given.
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When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.
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What do these children do without storybooks? Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them. I couldn't live without them. Naftali said.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]
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Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.
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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.
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In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.
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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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There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
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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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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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Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.
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