Chaim Potok Quotes

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• But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel…
• Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
• Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were…
• A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called…
• I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go…
• Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
• In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.
• As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
• Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.
• I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
• A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
• A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
• I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.
• If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel…
• There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly…
• To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes…
• I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and…
• We need to listen to one another.
• A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two
• I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

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