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Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) Polish-born American Journalist, Writer

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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is full of surprises. - Isaac Bashevis Singer


When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. - Isaac Bashevis Singer


If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. - Isaac Bashevis Singer


The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it. - Isaac Bashevis Singer


Take three quarts of duck's milk. - Isaac Bashevis Singer


As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right. - Isaac Bashevis Singer


Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. - Isaac Bashevis Singer


The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. - Isaac Bashevis Singer


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. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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