QUOTES by Chaim Potok
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"They are so rigid,' he said in a sudden angry voice. 'Why do they not see that this rigidity turns away our greatest minds?"
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"A man must be forced to choose. It is only when you are forced to choose that you know what is important to you."
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"An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity."
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"If everybody who had brains and doubts left Orthodoxy, we would be in a great deal of trouble."
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"My father's right to shape my life had been taken from him by the same being who gave his own life meaning"
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"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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"They become angry and ugly and they fight anything that's a threat to them. We have to learn how to fight back without hurting them too much."
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"A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses."
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"Good-bye, Davita. Be discontented with the world. But be respectful at the same time."
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"Asher Lev, an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist."
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"It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth."
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"You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you,."
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"You don't want to make mistakes with people. Sometimes when you make a mistake you lose a human soul."
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"We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and the world in a mental ghetto."
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"And then I was crying too, crying with Danny, silently, for his pain and for the years of his suffering, knowing that I loved him, and not knowing whether I hated or loved the long, anguished years of his life."
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"Do you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I don't understand why I wanted to kill you."
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"I held it close to my face and smelled the ink. I have always loved the smell of ink in a new book."
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"> Why does everything that lives have to die? < So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious."
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"Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the Potter and I am the clay."
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"...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something."
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"The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence."
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"Did he really believe God wrote stories that were open to one explanation only? A story that knew but one explanation could hardly be interesting and was certainly not worth the trouble of remembering."
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"Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way."
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"It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon..."
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"Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. "Haven't you learned that yet, Reuven?"
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"I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it."
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"A choice tells the world what is most important to a human being. When a man has a "choice "to make he chooses what is most important to him, and that choice tells the world what kind of a man he is."
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"… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth."
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"It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved."
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"... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist."
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"Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference."
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"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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"If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste."
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