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• There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.

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  Children, Book, Believe

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

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  Relationship, Matter, Enough

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

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• Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

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  Kindness, Generosity

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• We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

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  Animal, Vegetarianism, Justice

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• But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

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  People, Stories, Reader

  "Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations".

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• As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

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  Animal, Men, Principles

  "Enemies, A Love Story" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (p. 257), 1972.

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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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  Dream, Reality, Sometimes

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.185, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

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  Religious, Atheist, Fear

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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

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  People, About Yourself

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

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• God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.

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  Strong, Emotion, Idiot

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• The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

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  Friendship, Writing, Waste

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• 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.

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  Gun, Men, Animal

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• God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

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  Hero, Angel, Reader

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1985). “Gifts”, Jewish Publication Society

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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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  Liars, Lying, Writing

  "TIME" Magazine, July 18, 1983.

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• No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.

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  Disappointment, War, Loneliness

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• All that God does is for the good.

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  God, Doe, Good God

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

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  Beach, Ocean, Knowledge

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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• From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

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  Money, Wealth, Get Rich

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• Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

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  Believe, Choices, Free Will

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• A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

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  Writing, Stories, Literature

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• How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

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  Blood, Justice, Literature

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• All is foreseen but the choice is given.

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  Choices, Given, Foreseen

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• The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.

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  Uplifting, Art, Bored

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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• While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.

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  Facts, Obsolete, Stale

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal-be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse-knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.

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  Religious, Dog, Lying

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