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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
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Secondary
Engineering
Vision
Inspirational

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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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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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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.
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No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.
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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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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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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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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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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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What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.
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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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Death persecutes before it executes.
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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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