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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
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Ignites
Consumes
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Awe
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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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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Death persecutes before it executes.
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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.
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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
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Time at length becomes justice.
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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
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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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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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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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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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No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.
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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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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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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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To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
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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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