Cynthia Ozick Quotes

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• Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

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  Time, Two, First Impression

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

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  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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• When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Skulls, Taken For Granted

  "Noted with pleasure". The New York Times Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1984.

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• What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

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  Children, Memories, Childhood

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• After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

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  Inspirational, Years, Numbers

  "Cynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95". Interview with Tom Teicholz, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1987.

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• To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

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  Dream, Purpose, Want

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

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  Death, Grief, Mourn

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.45, Indiana University Press

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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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  Giving, Justice, Diversity

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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

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  Inspirational, Imagination, Use

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• I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

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  Mistake, Ideas, People

  Quoted in Francis Klagsbrun's TheFirst Ms. Reader We are the Crazy Lady and Other Feisty Feminist Fables (p. 67)

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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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  Writing, Language And Power, Kind

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

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  Writing, Acts Of Courage, Ifs

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• Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

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  Real, Self, Apprenticeship

  Cynthia Ozick (2011). “Fame & Folly: Essays”, p.217, Vintage

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• The engineering is secondary to the vision.

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  Inspirational, Engineering, Vision

  Cynthia Ozick (2017). “Art and Ardor”, p.279, Atlantic Books

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• I would distinguish between a visitor and a pilgrim: both will come to a place and go away again, but a visitor arrives, a pilgrim is restored. A visitor passes through a place; the place passes through the pilgrim.

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  Travel, Going Away, Visitors

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• Time heals all things but one: Time.

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  Time, Heal, All Things

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.

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  Happiness, Trouble

  Cynthia Ozick (2004). “Trust: A Novel”, p.401, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Truth, Hate, Useless

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• Death persecutes before it executes.

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  Death

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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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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  Beautiful, Butterfly, Joy

  Cynthia Ozick (1991). “The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories”, E P Dutton

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• The ordinary is the divine.

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  Ordinary, Divine

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• Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

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  Disease, Resentment, Should

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders...and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass table salvaged from the Park View Pharmacy--writing this, an impossibility, a summary of who you came to be where you are now, and where, God knows, is that?

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  Cousin, Uncles, Book

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• Time at length becomes justice.

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  Time, Justice, Length

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

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  Ambition, Desire, Purpose

  Cynthia Ozick (2006). “The Din in the Head”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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