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Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes: It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.
         

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.


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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.



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Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.



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



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In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.



As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.



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We must believe in free will - we have no choice.



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



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There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.



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Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.



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I don't know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.



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I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.



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