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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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Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick

Born: April 17, 1928 (age 97)
Bio: Cynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
Known for:
  1. The Puttermesser Papers (1997)
  2. Heir to the Glimmering World: A Novel (2004)
  3. The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)
  4. The din in the head (2006)
  5. Art and Ardor (1983)
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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

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