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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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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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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From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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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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While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.
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There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.
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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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The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.
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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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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
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I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.
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It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.
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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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