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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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In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
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In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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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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There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.
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Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
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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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A Marxist has never written a good novel.
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Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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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 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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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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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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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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