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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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New York City
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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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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 secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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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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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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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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Old saws have no teeth.
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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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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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It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
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The engineering is secondary to the vision.
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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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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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