Cynthia Ozick Short Quotes

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Very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

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It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.

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Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

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Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

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What is hysteria if not fates' tears, too deep for thought?

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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.

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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

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Literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

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Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

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To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.

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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.

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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

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Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

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In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

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It is useless either to hate or to love truth — but it should be noticed.

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History... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.

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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

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Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.

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Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

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If we had to say what writing is, we would define it essentially as an act of courage.

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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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Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

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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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Metaphor relies on what has been experienced before; it transforms the strange into the familiar.

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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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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self; a writer's lessons are ineluctably internal.

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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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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 be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

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After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.

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