01c. 1965 ADI sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate.Chaim Potok / quote ↗
02c. 1965 ADI'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 / quote ↗
04c. 1965 ADThe silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.Chaim Potok / quote ↗
05c. 1965 ADIt 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 / quote ↗
06c. 1965 ADI like his optimism,' I said. 'I like the way when he and some other rabbis saw a jackal in the ruins of Jerusalem, and the others began to cry, he laughed and said that just as the prophecy of the destruction of the temple was fulfilled, so the prophecy of the rebuilding would also be fulfilled. I like that.Chaim Potok / quote ↗
07c. 1965 ADIn Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.Chaim Potok / quote ↗
08c. 1965 ADHow 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.Chaim Potok / quote ↗
10c. 1965 ADEvery 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 / quote ↗
11c. 1965 ADAn 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 / quote ↗
13c. 1965 ADHave thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.Chaim Potok / quote ↗
14c. 1965 ADIn our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this.Chaim Potok / quote ↗
15c. 1965 ADI walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.Chaim Potok / quote ↗
16c. 1965 ADAll 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 / quote ↗
18c. 1965 ADBut 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1965 ADEvery 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 / quote ↗
