Source: Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer
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Famous Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
Source: The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Source: Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah
Source: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations
Source: The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.”
“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”
“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”
Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer
“For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.”
“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”
Source: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations
“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.”
“Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.”
Source: Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer
“A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.”
“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”
“The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.”
Source: Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer
“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.”
“The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.”
Source: Shosha
Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer