Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life."
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"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The waste basket is the writer's best friend."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"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."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"A good writer is basically a story-teller not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Writing has power but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind but they can't direct it. Time changes things God changes things the dictators change things but writers can't change anything."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The waste basket is a writer's best friend."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"If you keep saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Kindness I've discovered is everything in life."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God the family angels devils witches goblins logic clarity punctuation and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity but leave to adults such childish allusions."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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