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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.
Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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The ordinary is the divine.
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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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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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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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Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.
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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.
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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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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 is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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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 imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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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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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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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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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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We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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