Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes - Page 6

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• The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Half, Century, Twentieth Century

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Pregnancy, Writing

  "Stories for Children". Book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1984.

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• But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Dream, Eye, Dark

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1977). “Passions”, Fawcett

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Passion, Men, Creative

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

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• Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Fashion, Lasts, Body

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

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Spiritual, Foundation, Facts

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

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• They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Believe, Angel, Stuff

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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.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Character, Giving, Why Not

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Character, Experts

  The New York Times, November 26, 1978.

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• The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Giving Up, Ghetto, Self

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

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