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• The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.

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  People, About Yourself

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

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• The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

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  Art, Unique, Greatness

  "Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …About Everything". Interview with Richard Burgin, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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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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  Animal, Men, Principles

  "Enemies, A Love Story" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (p. 257), 1972.

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• But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

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  People, Stories, Reader

  "Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations".

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• The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

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  Soul, Alive, Body

  "Lessons About Life, Love, Hate and Human Experience". Book by Ifeanyi Egeru, p. 54, 2008.

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• The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

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  Friendship, Writing, Waste

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• When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

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  Liars, Lying, Writing

  "TIME" Magazine, July 18, 1983.

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• Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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  Beach, Ocean, Knowledge

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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• No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.

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  Disappointment, War, Loneliness

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

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  God, Mills, Flour

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• God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.

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  Strong, Emotion, Idiot

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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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  Gun, Men, Animal

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• From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

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  Money, Wealth, Get Rich

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• No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

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  Relationship, Matter, Enough

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

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• Shoulders are from God and burdens too.

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  Burden, Shoulders

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer”

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• There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

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  Inspirational, Purpose, Given

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: conversations”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.

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  Fashion, Plato, War

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.

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  Facts, Obsolete, Stale

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

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  Writing, Stories, Literature

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• The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.

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  Uplifting, Art, Bored

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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• All that God does is for the good.

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  God, Doe, Good God

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• We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

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  Animal, Vegetarianism, Justice

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• I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.

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  Expression, Next Chapter, Tools

  "|Isaac Singer's Promised City". "City Journal", Summer 1997.

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• How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

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  Blood, Justice, Literature

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• Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

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  Believe, Choices, Free Will

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