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Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer Teibele and Her Demon (1984)

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

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

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Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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