"I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own."

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Source : Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

Chaim Potok

#Silence Quotes #Quality Quotes #Dimensions Quotes

“I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.”
“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
“One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.”
“I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.”
“Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system - it's created the highest standard of living.”

Source : "Rick Santorum secures conservative Christian endorsement; debate over Mitt Romney's business record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 15, 2012.
“Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.”
“Any time is the time to make a poem.”

Source : Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.162, Vintage

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