A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Be… - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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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.

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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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Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet — whom Plato banned from his Republic — may rise up to save us all.

Si el destino de un hombre depende de la desgracia de otro, entonces no existe buena fortuna para nadie.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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