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Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 - 1991)

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

 
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