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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Compassion

"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Compassion

"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Creativity

"Life is God’s novel. Let him write it."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Faith

"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Philosophy

"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

Philosophy

"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Spirituality