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Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American
Novelist
Born:
Nov 21
,
1902
Died:
Jul 24
,
1991
Also
Choice
Good
Great
Life
You
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Great
Knowledge
Brainy
Ocean
Our
Island
Little
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
Man
Justice
Will
Gun
Long
Those
Destroy
Weaker
He
Knife
Than
Stand
Who
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Will
Free
Free Will
Believe
Must
No Choice
Choice
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
Try
Animals
Practice
Other
Say
Logic
Eaten
Prevent
Since
Also
Always
Continuing
Been
According
Times
Done
Often
Justification
Should
Earliest
Humans
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Wisdom
You
Yourself
Somebody
Else
Betray
Also
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
Writing
Words
Seen
Single
Thinking
Sum
Sum Total
Total
His
Sentences
Even
Originality
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life
God
Write
Him
Novel
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Great
Our
Say
Would
About
Only
Small
Small Part
Part
True
Powers
Learnt
Very
Behind
Little
Us
Skull
Treasure
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Art
Vision
Every
Chasm
Between
Ultimate
His
Experiences
Painfully
Creator
Expression
Inner
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Tells
He
Know
His
Person
Us
Actions
Thinks
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life
Me
Plot
Some
Because
How
Surprise
Surprises
Where
Story
Means
Full
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Saying
Good
You
Bad
Prophet
Going
Being
Good Chance
Keep
Things
Chance
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Religion
Doubt
Religious
Part
Were
Thinkers
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Thankful
God
Day
Word
Idea
Course
Am
Prize
Story
Each
Each Day
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Half
Complete
Century
Twentieth
Twentieth Century
Flop
Second
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Good
Teller
Writer
Scholar
Good Writer
Redeemer
Story
Mankind
Basically
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Character
Entertainment
Analysis
Highest
Human
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
Me
Liar
Writer
Call
Boy
Am
Up
Little
Grown
Now
Grown-Up
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Saying
Good
You
Bad
Prophet
Going
Being
Good Chance
Keep
Things
Chance
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