"What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali……" — Isaac Bashevis Singer
"What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said."
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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95 Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.
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Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
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What nature creates has eternity in it.
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