Potok Novel Quotes & Sayings

Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma. — Janeane Garofalo

I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it. — Chaim Potok

What you express in your character is what your lifestyle crowns — Sunday Adelaja

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

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. — Francois Mitterrand

The seventeenth, Desmond! Come along at once; everything's all right. We're going to buy a huge bracelet for my wife, an enormous cigarette-holder for Madame Peloux, and a tiny tie-pin for you — Colette

There were times that Nathan felt the world would be better off if he were dead. It seemed to him that it would be penance for his sins. — Belinda G. Buchanan

A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position and promote the worst of them to the front page. The sidewalk to crime becomes the marketing campaign. These artists have seen it work and sell millions and millions of records for other artists. — Chuck D

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If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate. — Chaim Potok

We shall remain prisoners of culture unless we become aware of the process and force ourselves to confront it and to deprogram it. — John Howard Griffin