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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Keys
Faces
Bigs
Orderly
Bright
Piano
Teeth

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Time at length becomes justice.
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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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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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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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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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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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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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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 power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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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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He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.
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The ordinary is the divine.
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literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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Death persecutes before it executes.
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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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Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
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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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