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Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer | Children and Childhood Quotes

The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer | Writers and Writing Quotes

Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer | Writers and Writing Quotes

A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer | Writers and Writing Quotes

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer | Acceptance Quotes

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

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer | Positive Quotes

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer | Positive Quotes

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer | Realistic Expectations Quotes

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

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