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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self; a writer's lessons are ineluctably internal.
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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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A writer is someone born with a gift. An athlete can run. A painter can paint. A writer has a facility with words. A good writer can also think.
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History... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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A. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy 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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What is hysteria if not fates' tears, too deep for thought?
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Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
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The glimmering world is the past. And everybody inherits a past. And it glimmers either happily or miserably.
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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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Yiddish is a household tongue, and God, like other members of the family, is sweetly informal in it.
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Literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
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Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
Cynthia Ozick
Born:
April 17, 1928
(age 96)
Bio:
Cynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
Known for:
The Puttermesser Papers (1997)
Heir to the Glimmering World: A Novel (2004)
The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)
The din in the head (2006)
Art and Ardor (1983)
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