“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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
Chaim Potok
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