Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish-born American author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement.
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“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.”
“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”
“They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.”
“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 cannot dwell together.”
“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”
“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.”
“Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.”
“Take three quarts of duck's milk.”
“Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions”