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It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew 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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When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
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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 you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.
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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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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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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]
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It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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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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