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Death persecutes before it executes.
Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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New York City
New York
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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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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 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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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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We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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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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Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.
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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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There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.
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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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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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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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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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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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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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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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