“The blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“DW: Some critics have written that they don’t admire your so-called simple style. You have contended that your writing is a result of much… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
“I cannot pray. I talk to God through my sculpture and painting.' 'That's also prayer.' He smiled faintly, the morning sun on his face.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
“How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
“Basically it’s none of our business how somebody manages to grow, if only he does grow, if only we’re on the trail of the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
“Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share
I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth. — Chaim Potok Copy Share
No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is. — Chaim Potok Copy Share
