Author: Chaim Potok

Quotes

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

- Chaim Potok

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

- Chaim Potok

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

- Chaim Potok

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

- Chaim Potok

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.

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

But 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.

But 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

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