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
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.
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.
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.
men quality may
A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.