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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
New York
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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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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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Death persecutes before it executes.
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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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