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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.
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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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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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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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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Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
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From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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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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While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.
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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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As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
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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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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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In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.
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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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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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Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.
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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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