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To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
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 will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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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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They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
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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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