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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.

Cynthia Ozick

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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
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Imagination
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Intimations

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Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.
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The ordinary is the divine.
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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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To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
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There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.
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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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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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Old saws have no teeth.
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Death persecutes before it executes.
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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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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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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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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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Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
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