1. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish-born American author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement.Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in 1902 in Leoncin, a mainly Jewish village near Warsaw in more.. more..

2. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer:We must believe in free will — we have no choice. #Choice#Choice

3. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer:We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. #Action#Action

4. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer: If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. #Pessimism #Pessimism

5. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer:If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. #Prophecy#Prophecy

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

7. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer:When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. #Betrayal#Betrayal

8. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer:People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. #Murder#Murder

9. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer: The waste basket is a writer's best friend. #Editing and Editors#Editing and Editors

10. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer:We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice. #Choice#Choice

11. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer:What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. #Nature#Nature

12. “ 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 motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. #Literature#Literature

13. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer: The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. #Present#Present

14. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer:What Yiddish Says article from The Weekly Standard (25 October 2004) #Autumn#Autumn

15. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer: A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. #Writers and Writing#Writers and Writing

16. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer:Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. #Skepticism#Skepticism

17. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer: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. #Food and Eating#Food and Eating

18. “ Isaac Bashevis Singer: The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. #Originality#Originality

19. “ 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. #Power#Power

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