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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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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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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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There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.
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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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Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
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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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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]
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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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Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.
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To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?
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From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
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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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