Sholem Asch
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"Sholem Asch", also written "Shalom Asch" or simply "Shalom Ash", was a Polish-born American Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language.

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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.

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.

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

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

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

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