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Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.

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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Death persecutes before it executes.
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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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The ordinary is the divine.
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.
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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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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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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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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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Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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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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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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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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It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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Old saws have no teeth.
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