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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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... 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 trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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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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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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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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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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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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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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The secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
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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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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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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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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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Death persecutes before it executes.
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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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