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Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 or July 14, 1904 - July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Jewish writer of both short stories and novels..

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

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

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"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."

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

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

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