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Literature is the memory of humanity.
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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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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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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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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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
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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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Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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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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What do these children do without storybooks? Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them. I couldn't live without them. Naftali said.
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Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
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We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.
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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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From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
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When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.
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No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.
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It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
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