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The ordinary is the divine.
Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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New York City
New York
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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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literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
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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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It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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Death persecutes before it executes.
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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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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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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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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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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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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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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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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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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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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
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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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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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