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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
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Saws
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The engineering is secondary to the vision.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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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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We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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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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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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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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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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Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.
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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 secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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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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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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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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