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Cynthia Ozick

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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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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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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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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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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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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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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 secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
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Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.
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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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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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Death persecutes before it executes.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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The ordinary is the divine.
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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 engineering is secondary to the vision.
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