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A Marxist has never written a good novel.
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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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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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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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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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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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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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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The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
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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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Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
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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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