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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
Teeth
Saws
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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
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To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.
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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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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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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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Death persecutes before it executes.
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Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts certain ideas and experiences hurt one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.
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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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In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.
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The ordinary is the divine.
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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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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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