It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism. Chaim Potok antagonismculturefeel Change image and share on social
Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it. Chaim Potok givetimetrouble Change image and share on social
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. Chaim Potok bookconstantlydraft Change image and share on social
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it. Chaim Potok chipcreatefigure Change image and share on social
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 adversarycountenanceelement share on social
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. Chaim Potok dayhalfsabbath Change image and share on social
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. Chaim Potok freudinsightmagnificent Change image and share on social
In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism. Chaim Potok calvinismjudaismword Change image and share on social
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things. Chaim Potok continuehappytalk Change image and share on social
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 beautyculturefind Change image and share on social