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7b8d1ed	Disorder and frequent sorrow the mulch for creativity.		Chaim Potok
d91ac58	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
36525cd	Do you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I don't understand why I wanted to kill you.		Chaim Potok
4629185	We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant...A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically give..		Chaim Potok
918f9c7	One derives great moral strength from a cup of coffee," I said."		Chaim Potok
03a190e	You don't want to make mistakes with people. Sometimes when you make a mistake you lose a human soul.		Chaim Potok
3cd8128	You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you,.		Chaim Potok
8cad2b5	Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat.	williamsburg	Chaim Potok
6bbf35d	It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.	man thunder	Chaim Potok
189a139	It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned.		Chaim Potok
5e99c26	A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two		Chaim Potok
cf9a617	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
9d41225	Good-bye, Davita. Be discontented with the world. But be respectful at the same time.		Chaim Potok
1b8294e	How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live and be well, the Rebbe made miracles and wonders for me. At night, I tell myself it is a dream and I am afraid to wake up. If it is a dream, better I should not wake up, better I should die in my sleep.	matzos torment survival persecution	Chaim Potok
d7b490f	Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world's memory. The past is erased without stories.		Chaim Potok
79e135d	Go to sleep, Asher. You've had a difficult day." "A difficult day? I didn't do a thing all day!" "For you, my husband, that is the most difficult kind of day you can have."		Chaim Potok
71a2253	God is merciful in what He sometimes lets us forget.		Chaim Potok
0a1cda0	Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. i almost recognized the melody, but i could not be sure, it slipped like a cool and silken wind from my grasp.	poetic piano	Chaim Potok
4f0b423	I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them;		Chaim Potok
5851d88	Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. 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.	beauty family true-culture universal nation artist	Chaim Potok
0263298	Only one who has mastered a tradition has a right to attempt to add to it or rebel against it.		Chaim Potok
bb93cb2	Great artists make the entire world their home.	travel world	Chaim Potok
70a07c0	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
f960884	Weeks of longing and solitude: twin muses of creation.		Chaim Potok
84c7b0b	Jestlize se chces dotknout srdce nejakeho cloveka, musis videt jeho tvar. Do duse se nedostanes telefonem.	srdce	Chaim Potok
b1f41c3	Surely all art is the result of having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. RAINER MARIA RILKE		Chaim Potok
e7c3f22	Asher Lev, an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.		Chaim Potok
c1df56c	What's next from you? Paintingwise, I mean." "I don't know. I'm between things now." "Dawn between things or dusk between things?" "I don't know that, either."		Chaim Potok
be660cd	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
6503bc3	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
aa885e1	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.	self-knowledge humanity standing-out artist	Chaim Potok
85c7d40	An artist is a person first.	personality	Chaim Potok
5f2a3d7	I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.	golden-sun	Chaim Potok
9eeab14	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
1c45361	a blink of an eye in itself is nothing.But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant...		Chaim Potok
a866cf2	Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows. Well,		Chaim Potok
2449365	Man sees only between the blinks of his eyes. He does not know what the world is like during the blinks. He sees the world in pieces, in fragments.		Chaim Potok
1033660	every great artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. 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
f37d61a	The fact is that gossip, rumors, mythmaking, and news stories are not appropriate vehicles for the communication of nuances of truth, those subtle tonalities that are often the truly crucial elements in a causal chain.		Chaim Potok
677df69	It's not a pretty world, Papa." "I've noticed," my father said softly."		Chaim Potok
ad7ce90	You paint it," he responds. "You are a specialist in darkness." I tell him, "I didn't live through it." He says, "We all lived through it, everyone; all of humanity lived through it. Was Picasso in Guernica? Did Guido Reni see with his own eyes the slaughter of little children in Bethlehem?"		Chaim Potok
2a11702	Devorah tended to fill empty spaces with books: end tables, the tops of dressers, the edges of desks, on occasion even a chair. She would arrange and rearrange the books with exacting care, lining up the spines so none jutted out: sentinel rows of books.		Chaim Potok
3b6ebf2	White is fearful to gaze upon for too long: it is the color of shrouds; it is all-color, the prism fused, undifferentiated, linked wave to wave and particle to particle.		Chaim Potok
c38c88c	When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the..		Chaim Potok

Disorder and frequent sorrow the mulch for creativity.

Chaim Potok

d91ac58

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

36525cd

Do you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I don't understand why I wanted to kill you.

Chaim Potok

4629185

We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant...A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically give..

Chaim Potok

918f9c7

One derives great moral strength from a cup of coffee," I said."

Chaim Potok

03a190e

You don't want to make mistakes with people. Sometimes when you make a mistake you lose a human soul.

Chaim Potok

3cd8128

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you,.

Chaim Potok

8cad2b5

Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat.

williamsburg

Chaim Potok

6bbf35d

It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.

man thunder

Chaim Potok

189a139

It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned.

Chaim Potok

5e99c26

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

Chaim Potok

cf9a617

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

9d41225

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

Chaim Potok

1b8294e

How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live and be well, the Rebbe made miracles and wonders for me. At night, I tell myself it is a dream and I am afraid to wake up. If it is a dream, better I should not wake up, better I should die in my sleep.

matzos torment survival persecution

Chaim Potok

d7b490f

Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world's memory. The past is erased without stories.

Chaim Potok

79e135d

Go to sleep, Asher. You've had a difficult day." "A difficult day? I didn't do a thing all day!" "For you, my husband, that is the most difficult kind of day you can have."

Chaim Potok

71a2253

God is merciful in what He sometimes lets us forget.

Chaim Potok

0a1cda0

Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. i almost recognized the melody, but i could not be sure, it slipped like a cool and silken wind from my grasp.

poetic piano

Chaim Potok

4f0b423

I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them;

Chaim Potok

5851d88

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. 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.

beauty family true-culture universal nation artist

Chaim Potok

0263298

Only one who has mastered a tradition has a right to attempt to add to it or rebel against it.

Chaim Potok

bb93cb2

Great artists make the entire world their home.

travel world

Chaim Potok

70a07c0

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

f960884

Weeks of longing and solitude: twin muses of creation.

Chaim Potok

84c7b0b

Jestlize se chces dotknout srdce nejakeho cloveka, musis videt jeho tvar. Do duse se nedostanes telefonem.

srdce

Chaim Potok

b1f41c3

Surely all art is the result of having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. RAINER MARIA RILKE

Chaim Potok

e7c3f22

Asher Lev, an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

Chaim Potok

c1df56c

What's next from you? Paintingwise, I mean." "I don't know. I'm between things now." "Dawn between things or dusk between things?" "I don't know that, either."

Chaim Potok

be660cd

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

6503bc3

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

aa885e1

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.

self-knowledge humanity standing-out artist

Chaim Potok

85c7d40

An artist is a person first.

personality

Chaim Potok

5f2a3d7

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

golden-sun

Chaim Potok

9eeab14

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

1c45361

a blink of an eye in itself is nothing.But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant...

Chaim Potok

a866cf2

Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows. Well,

Chaim Potok

2449365

Man sees only between the blinks of his eyes. He does not know what the world is like during the blinks. He sees the world in pieces, in fragments.

Chaim Potok

1033660

every great artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. 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

f37d61a

The fact is that gossip, rumors, mythmaking, and news stories are not appropriate vehicles for the communication of nuances of truth, those subtle tonalities that are often the truly crucial elements in a causal chain.

Chaim Potok

677df69

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

Chaim Potok

ad7ce90

You paint it," he responds. "You are a specialist in darkness." I tell him, "I didn't live through it." He says, "We all lived through it, everyone; all of humanity lived through it. Was Picasso in Guernica? Did Guido Reni see with his own eyes the slaughter of little children in Bethlehem?"

Chaim Potok

2a11702

Devorah tended to fill empty spaces with books: end tables, the tops of dressers, the edges of desks, on occasion even a chair. She would arrange and rearrange the books with exacting care, lining up the spines so none jutted out: sentinel rows of books.

Chaim Potok

3b6ebf2

White is fearful to gaze upon for too long: it is the color of shrouds; it is all-color, the prism fused, undifferentiated, linked wave to wave and particle to particle.

Chaim Potok

c38c88c

When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the..

Chaim Potok