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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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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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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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literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.
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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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We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.
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Old saws have no teeth.
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... woman is frequently praised as the more creative sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.
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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 usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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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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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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