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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
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In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.
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Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.
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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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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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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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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 saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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Time at length becomes justice.
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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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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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The secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
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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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The ordinary is the divine.
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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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The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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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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... 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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