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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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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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He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.
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Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.
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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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