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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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There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
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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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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 write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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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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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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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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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.
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Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
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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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In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.
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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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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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