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Cynthia Ozick Quotes


Brief author info: Cynthia Ozick (1928- ) American novelist and short story writer; often focuses on Jewish culture; considered to have contributed greatly to rebirth of short story in U.S. literature by incorporating novelistic elements such as social density and philosophic viewpoints.


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I notice no interplay of life and art." Life is that which-pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially-interrupts.
What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts, stamped, imprinted, eternally seen.
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.
Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.
Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.
In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?
To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.
We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.
Above all, a book is the riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk-a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.


Inspirational Quote
Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.


Life Quote
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Inspirational Quote
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
Life Quote
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

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