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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
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New York City
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In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
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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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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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The engineering is secondary to the vision.
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Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.
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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.
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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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The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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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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The secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
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Time at length becomes justice.
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I can't claim to be disenchanted with the current state of fiction because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.
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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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Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
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