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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Age: 87 †
Born: 1904
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: July 24
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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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In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.
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The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.
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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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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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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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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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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
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Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.
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One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.
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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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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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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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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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