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The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Cynthia Ozick

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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Language
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Power
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Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.
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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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Death persecutes before it executes.
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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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