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Time heals all things but one: Time.
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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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts certain ideas and experiences hurt one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.
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Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
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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 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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It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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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 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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To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
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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 ordinary is the divine.
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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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literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
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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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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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