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When people come together — let's say they come to a little party or something — you always hear them discuss character. They will say this one has a… - Isaac Bashevis Singer
" "When people come together — let's say they come to a little party or something — you always hear them discuss character. They will say this one has a bad character, this one has a good character, this one Is a fool, this one is a miser. Gossip makes the conversation. They all analyze character. It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning real names.
The writers who don't discuss character but problems — social problems or any problems — take away from literature its very essence. They stop being entertaining. We, for some reason, always love to discuss and discover character. This is because each character is different, and human character is the greatest of puzzles.
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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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Pen Names:
Bashevis
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Warszawski
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D. Segal
Native Name:
יצחק זינגער
Alternative Names:
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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