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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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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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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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Im never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. – Scipio Africanus

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Sometimes I think were alone. Sometimes I think were not. In either case, the thought is staggering. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldnt even notice, that the British wouldnt even notice, let alone the American audience. – Simon Pegg

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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybodys house. – Al Sharpton

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Ive done some TV and Ive done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. Im used to learning material and words. – Sutton Foster

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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain. – George Will

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All a good letter has to do is make you feel special. – Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo video game) written by Takayuki Ikkaku, Ar

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