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Even the worm that crawls in the Earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter your God.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
One thing I found out then was that pity is a form of love and, actually, its highest expression.
A Tale of Two Sisters — Isaac Bashevis Singer
A Tale of Two Sisters — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is no such thing as love. Give me a cigarette. In the camp, people climbed on one another like worms.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Of all the blessings bestowed on man, the greatest lies in the fact that God's face is forever hidden from him
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
All is foreseen but the choice is given.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
His eyes reflected a softness I had already forgotten in America.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
I don't study literature, I read it for enjoyment
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
A story to me must have some surprise ... I must have a passion to write the story.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The wastepaper basket is the writer's best friend.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it's dark
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you believe in God, then He exists.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Along with the atom, the personality of the Homo Sapiens has been splitting ...
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
What a strange power there is in clothing.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
One prays for life , life means free choice and freedom is mystery . If one knew the truth how could there be freedom
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Atheism is a sort of crippled mysticism, [...] Blind nature has created all that we see, as well as all that we do not see - that's a mystical notion.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
I believe in free will. I have no choice.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
You must believe in free will; there is no choice.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.
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God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Literature is the memory of humanity.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
The past is not lost. An image from years ago remained present somewhere in the fourth dimension and it reached you just in that moment.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.
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In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world ... full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
All that God does is for the good.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Misfortune draws people to religion and mysticism
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A Marxist has never written a good novel.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
A soldier who serves an emperor has to have a uniform, and this also applies to a soldier who serves the Almighty.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer