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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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The secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts certain ideas and experiences hurt one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.
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Death persecutes before it executes.
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To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.
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The ordinary is the divine.
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I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
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