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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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"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds."
"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."
"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."
"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
"Heart is really just forgetting to fail."
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"It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject."
"Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up."
"There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work."
"I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again."
"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."
"What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene."
"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."
"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."
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