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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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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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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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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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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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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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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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