Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

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• Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.
• Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
• As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men…
• As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice…
• We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
• There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a…
• God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.
• Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
• There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never…
• What nature creates has eternity in it.
• When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the…
• They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
• The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept…
• The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.
• Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
• Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.
• It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.
• There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

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