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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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Time at length becomes justice.
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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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Old saws have no teeth.
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In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
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