Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok
Chaim Potokwas an American Jewish author and rabbi. Potok is most famous for his first book The Chosen, which was listed on The New York Times’ best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 February 1929
CityBuffalo, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Chaim Potok quotes about
father papa world
It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.
family growing-up reading
All 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.
dark strange contradiction
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
tea happy-things afternoon-tea
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
life silly expression
As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.
reality years two
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.
artist firsts individual
... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.
differences lost-friendship honest
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
self needs gothic
I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.
waste made contribution
If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.
views stronger world
I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.
differences making-a-difference ifs
Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.
bears fruit seeds
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown
true-friend two people
Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul