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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

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 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

We must believe in free will. We have no choice. — Isaac B. 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

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit and he learned fast. — Robert Giroux

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

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

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. — 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

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

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. — 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

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

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

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. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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

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

I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. — Oscar Isaac

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. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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

While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

All that God does is for the good. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Misfortune draws people to religion and mysticism — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American. — Irwin Shaw

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

If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. — 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

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff. — Isaac Bashevis Singer