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Isaac Bashevis Singer quotes

American Novelist July 14, 1904 – July 24, 1991

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Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the... Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: "Every human character appears only once in the history of..."
Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: "Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions."
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. 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
Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: "Life is God's novel. Let him write it."
Life is God's novel. Let him write it. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: "Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life."
Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: "Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life."
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: "One prays for life , life means free choice and freedom is..."
One prays for life , life means free choice and freedom is mystery . If one knew the truth how could there be freedom Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: "A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise...."
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: "The waste basket is the writer's best friend."
The waste basket is the writer's best friend. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: "The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend."
The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend. Isaac Bashevis Singer
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only... Isaac Bashevis Singer
Children don t read to find their identity to free themselves from guilt to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... 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 illusions. Isaac Bashevis Singer
When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give. It is inconsistent. I can never accept inconsistency or injustice. Even if it comes from God. If there would come a voice from God saying, "I'm against vegetarianism!" I would say, "Well, I am for it!" This is how strongly I feel in this regard. Isaac Bashevis Singer
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. Isaac Bashevis Singer

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