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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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New York City
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
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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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Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.
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The ordinary is the divine.
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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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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
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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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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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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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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
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In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.
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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.
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