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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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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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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 imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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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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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 imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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Time at length becomes justice.
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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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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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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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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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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.
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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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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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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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