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Quote by Chaim Potok
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully an

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare – let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. – Chaim Potok

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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

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Beauty
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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 Freuds view of man. – Chaim Potok

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Religion
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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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Travel
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I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star. But Im not going to worry about them. Im dreaming the hardest. – Marilyn Monroe

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alone

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone. – John Buchanan Robinson

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alone

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. – Coco Chanel

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alone

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it. – Dirk Benedict

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What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. – Confucius

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Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. – Nina Bawden

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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting. – Nathan Fillion

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