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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All of us grow up in particular realities – a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how were 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. – 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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I think Jersey stands alone, and because Im from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. Ill make fun of what they look like, but Ill never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special. – Jeff Ross

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It is very easy to love alone. – Gertrude Stein

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When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web. – Tom Brady

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Sometimes I think were alone in the universe, and sometimes I think were not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. – Arthur C. Clarke

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. – Frank Norris

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My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. – Vivien Leigh

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Its shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I havent got a car yet. – Tom Felton

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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me its the oil of life. – John Betjeman

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