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In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.
The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.
Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.
Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.
The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.
I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.
God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.
Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.
There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.
There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.
Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.
There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.
As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.
It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.
Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.
If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.
Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not next year.
In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.
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.
We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.
I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.
I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.
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.
In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.