ThursdayMar 05, 2026
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער) (November 21, 1902 (see notes below) - July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish-born American author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement.
As long as human beings go on shedding the blood of animals, there will never be any peace.
We know what a person thinks, not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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.
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.
You must believe in free will; there is no choice.
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
I don't invent characters because the Almighty has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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