"Something that is yours forever is never precious"

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Source : Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.165, Anchor

Chaim Potok

#Forever Quotes

“You're watching us and you don't realize how much makeup and how much lighting is involved when we look good. We have a lot of help where we are. I don't think that it's healthy for young girls to be looking at these beauty magazines and watching TV and these shows and thinking [that's the standard] there's more European attitude - you look at French film, Spanish film, they're a little more open to quirks and human nature. That we're not all symmetrical, not all the same shape we need more of that.”

Source : "Birdseed boobs and babies: Highlights from the Women Who Kick Ass Comic-Con panel" by Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. July 27, 2014.
“I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.”
“It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.”
“Character: the grandest thing in the world.”
“Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used it as a weapon to keep down the populace. It is a wonderful way of disciplining people and making them do what you want, to tell them that if they don't do what you want they will, for example, go to Hell.”
“I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.”
“He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.”
“I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.”

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