Sholem Asch Quotes

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

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Sholem Asch

Sholem Asch (Yiddish: שלום אַש, Polish: Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States.

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Sholem Asch

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

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Heritage is Scriptures... Which have become absorbed into our blood.

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Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

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The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

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The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

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I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

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