Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. - 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

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

The waste basket is the writer's best friend. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. - 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

The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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