Isaac Bashevis Singer Short Quotes

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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

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We have to believe in free will. We've got no other choice.

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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

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Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

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The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.

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When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

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To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

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The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

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

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The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

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No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

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

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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

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It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.

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The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

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It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

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Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

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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.

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There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

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There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.

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When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

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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.

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It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning real names.

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Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not next year.

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