Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes - Page 5

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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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  Two, Literature, Might

  "The New York Times", June 30, 1985.

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• In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.

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  Animal, People, Nazi

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• In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.

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  Practice, Astrology, Numerology

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• What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

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  Heaven, Made, Happened

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• In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

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  Children, Book, Adults

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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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  Thankful To God, Ideas, Thankfulness

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.168, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

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  Death, Soul, Alive

  "Lessons About Life, Love, Hate and Human Experience". Book by Ifeanyi Egerue, Chebem Felix (p. 54), May 2008.

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

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  Art, Creativity, Expression

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

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• To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.

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  Strong, Thinking, Vegetarianism

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• What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.

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  Children, Bread, Said

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• Children?have no use for psychology.

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  Children, Psychology, Use

  1978 Speech on receiving his Nobel prize.

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• Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

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  Running, Women, Enough

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• A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

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  Passion, Writing, Stories

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• When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

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  Art, Mean, Curiosity

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: conversations”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.

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  Writing, Mind, Vectors

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• The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

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  Character, Analysis, Literature

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

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• Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

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  Pessimist, Cronies, Call Me

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

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• One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

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  Appreciation, Expression, Joy

  Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

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• Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

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  Patience, Giving, Feelings

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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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  Believe, Wife, Today

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer”

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• The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

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  Inspirational, England, Enjoy

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• There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

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  Men, Vocabulary, Cosmos

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

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• What nature creates has eternity in it.

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  Nature, Eternity

  "Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …about Everything". Interview with Richard Burgin, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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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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  Literature, Facts, Hebrew

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

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• 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.

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  Power, Skulls, Literature

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