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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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I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
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It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
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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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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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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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There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.
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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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We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.
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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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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.
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From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
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