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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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Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.
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When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
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We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.
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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 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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A Marxist has never written a good novel.
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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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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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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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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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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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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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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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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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