Accidents Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

“What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.”

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Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.

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As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and…

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What nature creates has eternity in it.

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“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…

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“If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.”

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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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Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

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Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

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No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

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By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

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Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can…

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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

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