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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.
~ Chaim Potok
Alone
Bible
Book
Consider
Contemporary
Elicit
Forth
Fully
Homer
Modern
Novel
Out
Poetry
Responses
Sent
Shakespeare
Way
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World
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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
About
Difficult
End
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Figure
Front
Goes
Her
Him
In The End
Much
Non-Fiction
Pretty
Satisfying
Shape
Work
Write
Writer
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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.
~ Chaim Potok
Aware
Born
Brought
Clan
Deeply
Depending
Either
Family
Grow
Grow Up
Home
How
Neighborhood
Particular
Reading
Realities
Reality
Small
Small Town
Town
Up
Us
Which
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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.
~ Chaim Potok
Adversary
Almost
Almost All
Another
Because
Countenance
Elements
Experience
Found
Freud
Human
Human Experience
Man
Odds
Religion
Religions
Two
Utterly
View
Ways
Western
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And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
~ Chaim Potok
Freud
Insights
Magnificent
Man
Nature
Profound
Some
Things
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As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
~ Chaim Potok
Always
Hungry
Knowledge
New
New Knowledge
Species
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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.
~ Chaim Potok
Aware
Because
Become
Experience
Human
Human Experience
Media
Other
People
Planet
Quickly
Readings
Speed
Today
Travel
Very
Which
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Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
~ Chaim Potok
About
Come
Continue
Happy
Happy Things
Let Us
Some
Talk
Tea
Things
Us
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Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.
~ Chaim Potok
Each
Give
Give Me
Me
Most
Seems
Time
Trouble
Work
Working
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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.
~ Chaim Potok
Beauty
Been
Culture
Every
Every Man
Everywhere
Found
Has-Been
His
Home
Man
Patriotism
People
Rebel
Shown
True
Universal
Way
Who
Without
World
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I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
~ Chaim Potok
Days
I Write
Sabbath
Six
Six Days
Week
Work
Write
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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
About
Again
Around
Break
Decide
Dinner
Evening
Get
Go
Long
Lunch
Plans
Previous
Take
Then
Until
Up
Walk
Wife
Work
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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.
~ Chaim Potok
About
Certainly
Close
Creativity
Heard
I Think
Lives
Material
Modern
Most
Own
People
Period
Raw
Raw Material
Serious
Them
Think
Use
Writers
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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.
~ Chaim Potok
Absolutely
Advantage
Automatically
Best
Divine
Enterprise
Extent
Great
Great Extent
Guarantee
History
I Think
No Guarantee
Ongoing
Our
Out
Partners
Relationship
Things
Think
Very
Will
Work
Work Out
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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.
~ Chaim Potok
Away
Chip
Create
Figure
Find
Following
Hardest
Hardest Part
I Think
Marble
Mean
Novelist
Part
Piece
Then
Think
Writing
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I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
~ Chaim Potok
Again
Book
Constantly
Draft
Entire
Go
Once
Through
Written
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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.
~ Chaim Potok
Alive
Altogether
Argue
Certain
Experience
Fundamentalism
Human
Human Experience
Necessity
Only
Order
Reading
Stay
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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
Advance
Agony
Any
Discovery
Exploration
Go
Had
Kind
Me
Novel
Plot
Rate
Set
Through
Want
Why
Would
Writing
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In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.
~ Chaim Potok
In Other Words
Judaism
Other
Words
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It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
~ Chaim Potok
Antagonism
Culture
Feel
Fuse
Impossible
Measure
Totally
Which
You
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