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In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.
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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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The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.
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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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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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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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The engineering is secondary to the vision.
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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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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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... 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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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
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It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
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Death persecutes before it executes.
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Old saws have no teeth.
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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.
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I can't claim to be disenchanted with the current state of fiction because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.
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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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