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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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 no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
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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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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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All is foreseen but the choice is given.
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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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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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The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.
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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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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.
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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
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A Marxist has never written a good novel.
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There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.
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