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The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.
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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But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. (Hanka)
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When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.
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To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
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There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.
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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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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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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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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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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
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From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
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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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