Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978)

Lived from: 1902 - 1991

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagPoland

Born: 21 november 1902 Died: 24 july 1991

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  • A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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  • Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
    Source: The New York Times (3 December 1978)
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  • I am a vegetarian for health reasons - the health of the chicken.
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  • If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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  • Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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  • Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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  • Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
    Source: The New York Times (3 December 1978)
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  • Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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  • The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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  • The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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  • The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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  • The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
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  • The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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  • There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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  • We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
    Source: Stories for Children (1984)
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  • What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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  • When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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  • When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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