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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
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New York City
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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 engineering is secondary to the vision.
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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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Old saws have no teeth.
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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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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.
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