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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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When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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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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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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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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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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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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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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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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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?
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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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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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Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.
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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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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
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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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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
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When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.
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