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I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.
— Chaim Potok In the beginning
Tags: truth, torah, scholarship

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Something that is yours forever is never precious
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I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
— Chaim Potok
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I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
— 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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I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.
— Chaim Potok
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