Famous quote by Chaim Potok

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"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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This quote is written / told by Chaim Potok between February 17, 1929 and July 23, 2002. He/she was a famous Author from USA. The author also have 27 other quotes.

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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

John Donne, Poet

"The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time"

"Beware of the person of one book"

"Years teach us more than books"

"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms"