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Isaac Bashevis Singer [1904-1991] American

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Novelist, Writer

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. The Polish form of his birth name was Icek Hersz Zynger.

Art, Chance, Great, Best, Brainy, Communication, Death, Environmental, God, Good, Health, Knowledge, Life, Nature, Religion, Thankful, War, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.	Environmental, Health	101
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.	Chance, Good	102
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.		103
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.	Wisdom	104
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.		105
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.	Nature	106
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.	Death, War	107
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.		108
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.		109
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.	Art	110
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.	Great	111
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.	Brainy, Great, Knowledge	112
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.	Best, Communication	113
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.		114
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.	Art	115
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.	God	116
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.		117
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.	Chance	118
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.	Life	119
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.		120
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.		121
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.		122
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.	Thankful	123
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.		124
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.		125
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.		126
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.		201
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.	Religion	202
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.		203
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.		204
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.		205

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