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One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.
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 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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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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A Marxist has never written a good novel.
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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 relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.
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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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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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The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.
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Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
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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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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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I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.
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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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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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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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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
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In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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