“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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“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”
— 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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“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”
— 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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“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.”
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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