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I started to "write" even before I knew the alphabet. I would dip a pen in ink and scribble. I also liked to draw — horses, houses, dogs. The Sabbath… - Isaac Bashevis Singer
" "I started to "write" even before I knew the alphabet. I would dip a pen in ink and scribble. I also liked to draw — horses, houses, dogs. The Sabbath was an ordeal for me, because it is forbidden to write on that day.
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About Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער or יצחק בת־שבֿעס זינגער; pseudonym: Icek Hersz Zynger;[1] born 21 November 1902 as Icek Zynger, died 24 July 1991) was a Polish-American writer of short stories and novels in Yiddish; he used his mother's name in devising his penname "Bashevis" (son of Bathsheba). He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.
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Native Name:
יצחק זינגער
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Isaac Bashevis-Singer
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Yitsḥoḳ Basheṿis
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Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis-Zinger
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Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis- Zinger
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I. B. Singer
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Itzhak Bashevis Singer
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Yitsḥoḳ Bashevis-Zinger
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Isaac Bashevis
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Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis
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Yitsḥoḳ Bashevis- Zinger
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Isaac Singer
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Darwin and Karl Marx didn't reveal the secret of the world. Of all the theories about creation, the one expounded in Genesis is the most intelligent. All this talk about primordial mists or the Big Bang is a wild absurdity. If someone found a watch on an island and said it had been made by itself or that it developed through evolution, he would be considered a lunatic. But according to modern science, the universe evolved all on its own. Is the universe less complicated than a watch?
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