All Chaim Potok Quotes
- No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is. Becomes
- Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference. Difference
- Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way. Art
- I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to… Amuse
- Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent,… Alternate
- It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly. Father
- My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also,… Apostate
- I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art. Art
- ... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. Artist
- I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a… Carry
- I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. All
- It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk. Angry
- Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms. Aesthetic
- Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the… Chosen
- And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. Freud
- What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that… Advance
- And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience… Adversary
- Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are… Aware