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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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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

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I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right. ↗

— Mike Singletary

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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

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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. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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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. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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