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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

Cynthia Ozick

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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Ultimately
Self
Real
Always
Apprenticeship

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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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Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
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