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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

Saying , Chance

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Kindness

" Life is God's novel. Let him write it. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

God

" The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Death , War , Literature , Intellect , Emotions , Emotion , Silly

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Death , War , Literature , Intellect , Emotions , Emotion , Silly

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Conscience , England

" The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Art , Greatness

" The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Entertainment , Character

" Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Man , Love

" People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

People , Justification , Animals , Practice , Logic

" If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Saying , Chance

" 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

Man , Thinking , Originality

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Mankind , Writer

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