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
beautiful hurt pain
You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes-sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.
fighting thinking people
Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.
men meaning-of-life given
The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.
writing half six
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
art evil good-art
I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.
differences lost-friendship honest
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
tea happy-things afternoon-tea
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
dark strange contradiction
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
artist firsts individual
... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.
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.
father papa world
It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.
long world grows
… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.
past plans persons
…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.
pain mean eye
We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? . . .I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.