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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.

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.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Power, Skulls, Literature

Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Patience, Giving, Feelings

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Half, Century, Twentieth Century

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Literature, Facts, Hebrew
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Inspirational, England, Enjoy

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Spiritual, Foundation, Facts
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Giving Up, Ghetto, Self
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Passion, Men, Creative
Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Men, Vocabulary, Cosmos
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Art, Character, Experts
The New York Times, November 26, 1978.

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