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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
Orderly
Bright
Piano
Teeth
Keys
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We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.
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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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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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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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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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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 power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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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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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
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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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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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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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The engineering is secondary to the vision.
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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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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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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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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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