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Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.


Chaim Potok

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CHAIM POTOK It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly.
CHAIM POTOK I wouldn't let anyone talk about it. It's one of those things you never want to talk about.
MARY ALM Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal...
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CHAIM POTOK All the sounds of this valley run together into one great echo, a song that is sung by all the spiri...
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CHAIM POTOK It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
CHAIM POTOK Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounter...
CHAIM POTOK There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of tha...
CHAIM POTOK I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called histor...
CHAIM POTOK A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about r...
CHAIM POTOK It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.
CHAIM POTOK An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it i...
CHAIM POTOK Life is like the blink of an eye. What is that worth? Nothing. But the eye that blinks - that is som...
CHAIM POTOK How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in mat...
CHAIM POTOK Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal...
CHAIM POTOK As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
CHAIM POTOK A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work t...
CHAIM POTOK I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again...
CHAIM POTOK I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to...
CHAIM POTOK Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di...
CHAIM POTOK I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of pe...
CHAIM POTOK I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship o...
CHAIM POTOK It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight o...
CHAIM POTOK Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows. Well,
CHAIM POTOK I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I n...
CHAIM POTOK We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and ...
CHAIM POTOK In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent ...
CHAIM POTOK You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn fr...
CHAIM POTOK Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.
CHAIM POTOK It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think ...
CHAIM POTOK Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.
CHAIM POTOK Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have p...
CHAIM POTOK And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
CHAIM POTOK And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all...
CHAIM POTOK But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the medi...
CHAIM POTOK Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than t...
CHAIM POTOK To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those begi...
CHAIM POTOK If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the no...
CHAIM POTOK Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'unive...
CHAIM POTOK I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about...
CHAIM POTOK I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only r...
CHAIM POTOK In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.
CHAIM POTOK Archer! Let us fetch a spot of tea, old boy!
RACHEL HAWKINS Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains ar...
KAKUZō OKAKURA We talk a lot about their defense, and I'm going to continue to talk a lot about our defense,
LOVIE SMITH Sometimes things are so insanely private, you don't even want to talk about them with yourself. Don'...
CATHY LAMB We've got some things to talk about still, but I hope so.
DAVE JAMISON I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Some of us in college, some of us in high school, you know, did things that we weren't particularly ...
WILLIAM BENNETT If Karl calls us, I'll talk to him. But I'm not going to go recruiting. We're going to respect Karl'...
GREGG POPOVICH We all kind of have a chip on our shoulder. Let us be the youngest quarterbacks in the NFL, you know...
ALEX SMITH We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.
JODI PICOULT It's a true blessing. I feel like God has blessed me. You've always got to pray and continue to than...
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON Sometimes people come into our lives to make us a softer person, other times they come to teach us t...
FORREST CURRAN When you come home you have to take care of business. You can't just continue to let teams come in a...
MARQUIS WEBB People can come talk to us, find out about us, see if they want to get involved and see how they can...
AMANDA LUTJEN Anyone who would like to come look at the house and talk with us about what's involved in joining th...
GAIL HENRY May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of ...
RICHARD L. EVANS We're starting to talk about some things. We don't have anything planned immediately, but I think in...
BOB WOOD Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
TAMRA DAVIS We agreed to disagree. We continue to disagree about the schedule, timing and amounts in the past bu...
ALAN BERSIN We're quite happy to come and gatecrash things.
RICHARD ARCHER I would love for the time to come where somebody can talk about me and not have to talk about Britne...
JESSICA SIMPSON A serious and composed young actress who won't let a line pass without making certain she's had it i...
WALTER KERR “Life is a forever learning lesson. It’s all about how we handle situations every day and not le...
BILL SCHUFFENHAUER Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
FRAN LEBOWITZ I'll have a biscuit. And some sweet tea.
BUCKY COVINGTON Now let's talk about dreams. Yes. Dreams. I believe that dreams are one of the best thing in the wor...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA We'll continue to look for opportunities to let people know they can ship from here, and hopefully t...
GEORGE BALD When I talk about sad things, I talk about sad things.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or shouldn’t have, spoil our enjoyme...
RICHARD L. EVANS Having all that - the fame and adulation and women and all that stuff they talk about - doesn't ...
DAVID CASSIDY I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and...
HARUKI MURAKAMI It's a great advertising tool for the track because this opportunity doesn't come around too often. ...
BARB BARTLEY The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to...
PASCAL MERCIER Let us come together before we're annihilated.
STEVIE WONDER There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up. We'll say 'How's it...
AMY DELUCA You do what you like because you just follow your curiosity, and you are happy when you find new thi...
ERWIN NEHER I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she...
LYNDON JOHNSON Let us not talk about using force; we are equally strong. In fact, we can swat your ass.
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV There needed to be some kind of forum, to talk about these kinds of things. (Seniors) come from a mu...
CHARIE HARRIS We feel assured the mission and the original vision can continue without us. We are leaving when thi...
BARBARA FERRARO We've got to have candor and talk about these things while we reject wild hypotheses,
WILLIAM BENNETT He wanted those of us who have had some history here to talk about the pride we felt when we put the...
JOE THEISMANN I guess it is better for people to talk about us than not talk about us.
NICK ATKINSON There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them...
FERDINAND MARCOS We're looking for survival here. This is us we're talking about, we really need to turn this around....
FENNER STEVENSON I remember him, but it's hard not to come full circle as an adult and not be able to talk with him a...
HEATHER HUTH Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest disc...
ALAN ALDA It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warmi...
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BROOKS MONAGHAN I once said some mean things about someone, and they were standing right behind me. That experience ...
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CHAIM POTOK Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di...
CHAIM POTOK I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of pe...
CHAIM POTOK I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship o...
CHAIM POTOK It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight o...
CHAIM POTOK Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows. Well,
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CHAIM POTOK We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and ...
CHAIM POTOK In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent ...
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CHAIM POTOK Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.
CHAIM POTOK It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think ...
CHAIM POTOK Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.
CHAIM POTOK Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have p...
CHAIM POTOK And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
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MARK POTOK I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and ...
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