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I have many times resigned myself to never finding a true way out. But a new hope always emerges telling me that it is not yet too late for all of us to take stock and make a decision. I was brought up to believe in free will.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer Nobel lecture (1978)

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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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