Isaac Bashevis Singer quotes
"When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself."
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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."
"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."
"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."
"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."
"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."
"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."