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

~Chaim Potok

Topics: About Come Continue Happy Let Us Some Talk Tea Things Us

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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

Topics: 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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Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

~Chaim Potok

Topics: Aware Before Commitments Core Culture Essential Hopes How How Much Much Nature Particular Profound Really Related Strain Violence Well You Your

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As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

~Chaim Potok

Topics: Always Hungry Knowledge New New Knowledge Species

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

~Chaim Potok

Topics: About Film Making Name Some Thought Yes

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To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

~Chaim Potok

Topics: Been Beginnings Come Contending Deeply Early Extent Fiction Life Much My Life Religious Subject Those Tradition

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And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

~Chaim Potok

Topics: Freud Insights Magnificent Man Nature Profound Some Things

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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

Topics: Beauty Been Culture Every Every Man Everywhere Found His Home Man Patriotism People Rebel Shown True Universal Way Who Without World

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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

Topics: About Again Around Break Decide Dinner Evening Get Go Long Lunch Plans Previous Take Then Until Up Walk Wife Work

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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

Topics: Any Aware Brought Hundred More Most Never Other People Planet Reality Than Two Up Were Which Years Years Ago

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 17th, 1929

Died: July 23rd, 2002

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