Memorable Quotes and quotations from Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 - 1991)


Isaac Bashevis Singer - New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer - New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- 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.

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- 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.

Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Times (1982)
- We have to believe in free will. We?ve got no choice.

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- When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

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- What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer - New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
- Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

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

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- 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 - New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer - New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
- When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

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- 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.

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- Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.