Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes - Page 6

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• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Pregnancy, Writing

  "Stories for Children". Book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1984.

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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")

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Dream, Eye, Dark

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1977). “Passions”, Fawcett

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• The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

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  Inspirational, England, Enjoy

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• The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Passion, Men, Creative

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

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• The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Giving Up, Ghetto, Self

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

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• What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Believe, Wife, Today

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

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• Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Patience, Giving, Feelings

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• They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Believe, Angel, Stuff

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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.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Fashion, Lasts, Body

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

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• As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Character, Giving, Why Not

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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