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Time at length becomes justice.
Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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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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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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