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Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus and Other Stories QUOTES

Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus and Other Stories QUOTES

1 " When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whole world, all human life, is one long story. "

― Isaac Bashevis Singer , Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus and Other Stories

2 " But to the last question," Zelig replied, "he probably flew to beyond the Dark Regions, where people don't go and cattle don't stray, where the sky is copper, the earth iron, and where the evil forces live under roofs of petrified toadstools and in tunnels abandoned by moles. "

― Isaac Bashevis Singer , Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus and Other Stories

3 " What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked.
And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them."
I couldn't live without them." Naftali said. "

― Isaac Bashevis Singer , Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus and Other Stories