Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.
("My Name Is Asher Lev")
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But it would have made me a whore to leave it incomplete. It would have made it easier to leave future work incomplete. It would have made it more and more difficult to draw upon that additional aching surge of effort that is always the difference between integrity and deceit in a created work. I would not be the whore to my own existence. Can you understand that? I would not be the whore to my own existence.Chaim Potok
No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.
Chaim Potok
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
Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.
Chaim Potok
Life is like the blink of an eye. What is that worth Nothing. But the eye that blinks - that is something. I guess I blinked, on accident. Sometimes, though, I have found accidents to be the most fortuitous events in my life. You meet the one person who reminds you what you are, what you do, how to be happy.
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
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