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The engineering is secondary to the vision.
Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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New York City
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In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.
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He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.
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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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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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Old saws have no teeth.
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In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
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The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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The ordinary is the divine.
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Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.
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literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
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Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.
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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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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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