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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

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Thou art the Potter and I am the clay. — 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

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven. — Chaim Potok

We will have many fights. But they will be for the sake of Torah. — Chaim Potok

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. — 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

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. — 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

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way. — Chaim Potok

Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different. — Chaim Potok

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev. — 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

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms. — 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

It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly. — Chaim Potok

When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble. — Chaim Potok

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. Haven't you learned that yet, Reuven? — Chaim Potok

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism. — Chaim Potok

... the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth. — 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

One derives great moral strength from a cup of coffee, I said. — Chaim Potok

An artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. — Chaim Potok

I grew up encrusted with lead and spectrumed with crayons. My dearest companions were Eberhard and Crayola. Washing for meals was a cosmic enterprise. — 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

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul — Chaim Potok

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

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

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it. — Chaim Potok

Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been. — Chaim Potok

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. — 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

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. — Chaim Potok

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk. — Chaim Potok

Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat. — Chaim Potok

It's my world, best friend. And I haven't seen anything outside that's better. — Chaim Potok

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. — Chaim Potok

They are so rigid,' he said in a sudden angry voice. 'Why do they not see that this rigidity turns away our greatest minds? — Chaim Potok

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown — Chaim Potok

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival. — Chaim Potok

Good-bye, Davita. Be discontented with the world. But be respectful at the same time. — Chaim Potok

But I do not know how else the work can be done. To touch a person's heart, you must see a person's face. One cannot reach a soul through a telephone. — Chaim Potok

I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city. — Chaim Potok

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things. — Chaim Potok