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"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory."
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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
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"Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all."
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"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
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"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."
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"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."
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"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
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"When I die Dublin will be written in my heart."
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"Knock on the heart's emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you."
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"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences."
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"Your heart is the gateway to the divine."
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"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage."
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"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."
Poetry

"In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism."
Religion

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

"I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it."
Writing

"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."
Experience

"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction."
Life

"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."
People

"It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism."
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