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

Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist

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"The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it."

Margaret Drabble, English Novelist

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"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."

Martin Lewis Perl, American Physicist

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"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."

John Pomfret, American Poet

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"I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies."

Eden Ahbez, American Musician

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"Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."

Cliff Burton, American Musician

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"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

Iris Murdoch, Irish Author

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"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

Ingrid Bergman, Swedish Actress

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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

Salvador Dali, Spanish Artist

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"But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated."

Roger Sessions, American Composer

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"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."

John McGahern, Irish Writer

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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."

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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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"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions."

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"There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do."

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"A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises."

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

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"The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it."

"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."

"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."

"I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies."

"Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."

"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

"But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated."

"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."

Explore more quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

"I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day."

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

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

"The waste basket is the writer's best friend."

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

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions."

"There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do."

"A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises."

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