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 emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. — 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
