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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
All that God does is for the good.
Children?have no use for psychology.
Literature is the memory of humanity.
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.
Shoulders are from God and burdens too.
What nature creates has eternity in it.
All is foreseen but the choice is given.
A Marxist has never written a good novel.
I believe in free will. I have no choice.
What a strange power there is in clothing.
Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
We must believe in free will - we have no choice.
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?
The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.
God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.
No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.
There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.
The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.
When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.