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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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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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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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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
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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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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 at length becomes justice.
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There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.
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very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
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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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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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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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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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The secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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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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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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Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.
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