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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 we're 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

#aware #born #brought #clan #deeply

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

#been #culture #every #every man #everywhere

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#mythical-beasts #stardust #experience

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#difficult #end #fiction #fiction writer #figure

When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice. ↗

— Sarah Vaughan

#i #notice #right #shoulder #sing

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#experience

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#insights #into #magnificent #man #nature

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#hungry #knowledge #new #new knowledge #species

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

#because #become #experience #human #human experience

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#i #i write #sabbath #six #six days