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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.
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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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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As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.
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If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.
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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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There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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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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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
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No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.
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