"Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev."

Thought, Film, Name

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"Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev."

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"Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature."

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"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, Travel, People, Media

"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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"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."

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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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"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."

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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."

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"If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate."

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"I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive."

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

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"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry Adams, American Historian

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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

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"The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect."

Felix Adler, German Educator

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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought."

Scipio Africanus, Roman Soldier

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