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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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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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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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Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
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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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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
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Old saws have no teeth.
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I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.
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Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.
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Time at length becomes justice.
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literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of 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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... 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 the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow 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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To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
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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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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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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.
Cynthia Ozick
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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