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Time at length becomes justice.

Cynthia Ozick

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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Time
Length
Becomes
Justice

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What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.
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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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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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