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Isaac Bashevis Singer quoteIsaac Bashevis Singer [1904-1991] American Novelist
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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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