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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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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
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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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Children?have no use for psychology.
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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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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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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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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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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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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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It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.
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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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I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.
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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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Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.
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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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