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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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New York City
New York
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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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We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.
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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.
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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.
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The engineering is secondary to the vision.
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I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
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We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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The ordinary is the divine.
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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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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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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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