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Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
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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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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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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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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In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.
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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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It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
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The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
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To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
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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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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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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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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 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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When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.
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The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.
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From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
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How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
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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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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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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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