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• What a strange power there is in clothing.

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  Fashion, Strange, Clothings

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

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• Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

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  Art, Age, Novelists

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah”

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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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  Writing, Expression, Vision

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

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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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  Moving, Fighting, Fate

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

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• Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

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  Religious, Atheist, Fear

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

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• God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

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  Hero, Angel, Reader

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1985). “Gifts”, Jewish Publication Society

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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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  Life, War, Silly

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• In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

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  Law, Differences, Literature

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

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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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  Religious, Dog, Lying

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• Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

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  Love, Religious, Compassion

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

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• No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

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  Doubt, World, Imaginary

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

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• All is foreseen but the choice is given.

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  Choices, Given, Foreseen

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• I believe in free will. I have no choice.

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  Believe, Choices, Free Will

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• What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

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  Heaven, Made, Happened

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• I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

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  Truth, Liars, Believe

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• One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.

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  God, World, Know How

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• Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

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  Dream, Past, Dust

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• There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

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  Animal, Long, World

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• The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

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  Diplomats, Telling The Truth, Sensitive

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.251, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

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  Men, Scream, Beats

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• In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.

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  Eye, Self, Mad

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2012). “Shosha”, p.238, Penguin UK

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• Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

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  Would Be, Stories, Literature

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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.

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  Animal, Men, Compassion

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

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• The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.

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  Knowing, Victory, Doe

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

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• A Marxist has never written a good novel.

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  Marxist, Novel, Written

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