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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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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 secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
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... woman is frequently praised as the more creative sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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Death persecutes before it executes.
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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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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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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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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 I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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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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