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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.
Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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Time at length becomes justice.
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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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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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