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Chaim Potok
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Old Men At Midnight
What is your dissertation, Ilana Davita?" "Babel and Camus: Twists of Fate and Faith. Babel's The Red Cavalry and Camus's The Stranger.
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Chaim Potok
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Old Men At Midnight
DW: Some critics have written that they don't admire your so-called simple style. You have contended that your writing is a result of much rewriting and much revision and is deliberate. CP: The style is simplicity for the sake of complexity. Whoever feels that it is a "simple style" has to look into it and find the right way. Of course the style has become over the years much more complex and much more simple. Two fundamental things about the novel continue to intrigue me and I think this is our gift to ourselves as far as this form is concerned. One is the handling of character, people. No other form can handle people in significant depth over long periods of time. No other form can move back and forth, in and out, nothing can move the way the novel can in terms of the dimension of time. People and time are what I think the novel is really all about and I think they are limitless.
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Chaim Potok
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Old Men At Midnight
A ram comes always as an astonishment. Do you know what a ram is, Benjamin? R-A-M. A random act of menschlichkeit.
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Chaim Potok
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Old Men At Midnight
And now you'll be able to sail right through to the end." "I've already written the end. It was the beginning I couldn't write." "The story you just told me is part of your beginning?" "It is the myself that predates what I am now.
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Chaim Potok
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Old Men At Midnight
Life connects us, Benjamin, not artifice.
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Chaim Potok
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Old Men At Midnight
Excuse me, you taught trope in Theresienstadt?
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Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows. Well,
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Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world's memory. The past is erased without stories.
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I cannot have gone through what I went through and have lost what I lost if it's all meaningless.
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