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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.
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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They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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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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Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
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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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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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Children?have no use for psychology.
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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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Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
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Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.
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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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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 Marxist has never written a good novel.
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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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Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal-be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse-knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.
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Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
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