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A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.
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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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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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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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 lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.
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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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Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?
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If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.
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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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We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
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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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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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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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All is foreseen but the choice is given.
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Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.
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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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Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
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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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