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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Written by 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.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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