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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Piano
Teeth
Keys
Faces
Bigs
Orderly
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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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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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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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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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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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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 power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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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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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
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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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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
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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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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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