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literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
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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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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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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The ordinary is the divine.
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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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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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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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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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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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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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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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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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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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In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
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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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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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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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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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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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