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

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"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

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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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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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

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