Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Life
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Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
Life
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Life
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Wisdom
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.
Education
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Education
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
Wisdom
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Wisdom
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.
Life
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Wisdom
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Wisdom
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Wisdom
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Wisdom
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.
Life
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Love
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
Success
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Wisdom
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Wisdom
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Wisdom
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Wisdom
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Friendship
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Happiness
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