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Facts about Chaim Potok

Occup.Author
FromUSA
BornFebruary 17, 1929
DiedJuly 23, 2002
Aged73 years

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Chaim Potok was a famous Author from USA, who lived between February 17, 1929 and July 23, 2002. He/she became 73 years old.

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He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous. Our collection contains 28 quotes who is written / told by Chaim, under the main topic Family.

28 Famous quotes by Chaim Potok

Small: It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and
"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"
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Small: I dont work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week
"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week"
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Small: Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time Im working on it
"Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it"
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Small: Im constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again
"I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again"
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Small: I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history.
"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 there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage"
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Small: A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elic
"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 forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel"
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Small: Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the
"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 brought up"
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Small: Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters a
"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"
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Small: 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:
"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"
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Small: A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refi
"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"
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Small: In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism
"In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism"
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Small: Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a universal wit
"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere"
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Small: But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media a
"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 the planet"
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Small: What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those peop
"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 I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene"
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Small: To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginni
"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction"
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Small: It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism
"It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism"
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Small: Im not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading o
"I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive"
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Small: There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that t
"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"
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Small: And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man
"And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man"
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Small: And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all th
"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 found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man"
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Small: I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to cr
"I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it"
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Small: Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things
"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things"
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Small: Well, one hopes that if youre really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound
"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 of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature"
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Small: As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge
"As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge"
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Small: If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel
"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"
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Small: I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of peopl
"I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity"
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Small: All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood.
"All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it"
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Small: Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev
"Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev"
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