Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"Isaac Bashevis Singer" was a Poland/Polish-born Jewish-American author. The Polish form of his birth name was Izaak Zynger and he used his mother's first name in an initial pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded to the form under which he is now known.Several of his professional identification cards using localized spellings and further variants of these names are reproduced in,

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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice.

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.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

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.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

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.

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

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

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

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.