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Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
  • What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
  • Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
  • Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
  • When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
  • 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 motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
  • We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
  • 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.
  • We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.
  • Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.