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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.
— Chaim Potok
I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.
— Chaim Potok
I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.
— Chaim Potok
The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.
— Chaim Potok
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
— Chaim Potok
It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.
— Chaim Potok
All beginnings are hard.
— Chaim Potok
Something that is yours forever is never precious
— Chaim Potok
An artist is a person first.
— Chaim Potok
It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight on distant ice.
— Chaim Potok
My father's right to shape my life had been taken from him by the same being who gave his own life meaning - the Rebbe.
— Chaim Potok
You don't want to make mistakes with people. Sometimes when you make a mistake you lose a human soul.
— Chaim Potok
There are times when those who fear God make themselves very unpleasant as human beings.
— Chaim Potok
We need to listen to one another.
— Chaim Potok
We cannot build our lives around sickness, Asher. We must have faith in the Master of the Universe.
— Chaim Potok
Do you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I don't understand why I wanted to kill you.
— Chaim Potok
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
— Chaim Potok
It's nice to be able to retire. Comforting." "You think so?" he said. "Isn't it?" "No," he said. "Endings are never nice.
— Chaim Potok
A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is.
— Chaim Potok
Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.
— Chaim Potok
I held it close to my face and smelled the ink. I have always loved the smell of ink in a new book.
— Chaim Potok
It's only a book. But what it means to write a book.
— Chaim Potok
God is merciful in what He sometimes lets us forget.
— Chaim Potok
Can you understand what it means for something to be incomplete?" my mother had once asked me. I understood, I understood.
— Chaim Potok
A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two
— Chaim Potok
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
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
If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.
— Chaim Potok
No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.
— Chaim Potok
In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.
— Chaim Potok
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
— Chaim Potok
An artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.
— Chaim Potok
Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.
— Chaim Potok
Take care of your father," he said. "There aren't many people like him around anymore.
— Chaim Potok
Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.
— Chaim Potok
Was it a pretty drawing, Asher?''No Mama. But it was a good drawing ... I don't want to make pretty drawings, Mama. — Chaim Potok
If everybody who had brains and doubts left Orthodoxy, we would be in a great deal of trouble.
— Chaim Potok
The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.
— Chaim Potok
As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
— Chaim Potok
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
— Chaim Potok
Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat.
— Chaim Potok
