A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Life is God's Novel. Let Him write it. -Isaac Bashevis Singer” — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“The rabbi thought he saw an expression of perplexity in the golem's eyes. It seemed to the rabbi that his eyes were asking, Who… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
