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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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Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
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The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.
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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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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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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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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 secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
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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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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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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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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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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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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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Death persecutes before it executes.
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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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