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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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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."

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

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"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

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"What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?"

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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

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"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

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"I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed."

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"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

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"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."
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"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."
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"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."
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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."
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"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."
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"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."
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"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."
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