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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

Topics: Aware Because Become Experience Human Human Experience Media Other People Planet Quickly Readings Speed Today Travel Very Which

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Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

~Chaim Potok

Topics: Chosen Danny Element Encounters Heart His Reading Readings Religious Secular Theory Very Well World

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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

Topics: 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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It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

~Chaim Potok

Topics: Antagonism Culture Feel Fuse Impossible Measure Totally Which You

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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

Topics: Absolutely Advantage Automatically Best Divine Enterprise Extent Great Great Extent Guarantee History No Guarantee Ongoing Our Out Partners Relationship Things Think Very Will Work Work Out I Think

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In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

~Chaim Potok

Topics: In Other Words Judaism Other Words

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It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

~Chaim Potok

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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

Topics: Alive Altogether Argue Certain Experience Fundamentalism Human Human Experience Necessity Only Order Reading Stay

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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

Topics: About Certainly Close Creativity Heard Lives Material Modern Most Own People Period Raw Raw Material Serious Them Think Use Writers I Think

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There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

~Chaim Potok

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 17th, 1929

Died: July 23rd, 2002

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