When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singer in New York Times Magazine (12 March 1978)
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer in New York Times Magazine (12 March 1978)
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer in New York Times Magazine (26 November 1978)
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer in New York Times Magazine (26 November 1978)
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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 motions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer in New York Times Magazine (26 November 1978)
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