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Chaim Potok quotes

American Author February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002

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Chaim Potok quote: "And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound..."
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my..."
I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art. Chaim Potok
You can listen to silence, Reuven. 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. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it. Chaim Potok
It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject. Chaim Potok
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 present in the early work. Chaim Potok
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn..."
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. Chaim Potok
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 for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get..."
Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way. Chaim Potok
…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future. Chaim Potok
Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it. Chaim Potok
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 is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in..."
In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until..."
It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon... Chaim Potok
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 secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. Chaim Potok

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