When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

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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
Alternative Names: Isaac Bashevis-Singer Yitsḥoḳ Basheṿis Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis-Zinger Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis- Zinger I. B. Singer Itzhak Bashevis Singer Yitsḥoḳ Bashevis-Zinger Isaac Bashevis Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis Yitsḥoḳ Bashevis- Zinger Isaac Singer
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How is it possible, after all, that someone should simply vanish? How can someone who lived, loved, and wrangled with God and with himself just disappear? I don’t know how and in what sense but they’re here. Since time is an illusion, why shouldn’t everything remain?

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إذا كان الإله حكيمًا فكيف تكون هناك حماقة؟ وإذا كان الإله هو الحياة فكيف يكون هناك موت؟ إني أرقد بالليل، رجل ضئيل، ذبابة نصف مسحوقة وأتحدث إلى الأموات وإلى الأحياء، وإلى الإله إن كان موجودًا، وإلى الشيطان الموجود يقينًا وأسألهم: ما الحاجة إلى كل هذا ؟

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