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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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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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Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.
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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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The engineering is secondary to the vision.
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Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.
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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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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 be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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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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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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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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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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The secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
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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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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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