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. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Isaac Bashevis Singer: "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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Actually	Becomes	Begins	Death
Emotion	Essence	Ignore	Intellect
Intellectual	Life	Literature	Motions
Passions	Silly	Sterile	Substance
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