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Top 80 Cynthia Ozick Quotes (2024 Update)

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “The ordinary is the divine.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn’t matter.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “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.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “One reason writers write is out of revenge.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “I work from a different theory. For everything there’s a bad way of describing, also a good way. You pick the good way, you get along better.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “The imagination has resources and intimations we don’t even know about.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty ribcages.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “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.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail’s secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “The engineering is secondary to the vision.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “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.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers – and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society’s logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Time heals all things but one: Time.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “What we think we are surely going to do, we don’t do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it – so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “There’s a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Old saws have no teeth.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “All politicians know that every ‘temporary’ political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Lie, illusion, deception, she said – was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren’t the lords of the earth.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “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.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “I read in desperate snatches in the interstices of the Quotidian, and dream of finding three uninterrupted quiet hours to think, moon, mentally maunder, and, above all, write. I am pursued by an anti-Muse; her name is Life. Her homely multisyllabic surname is often left unenunciated, but to certain initiates it may be whispered: Exigency.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “By replacing history with fantasy, the Palestinians have invented a society unlike any other, where hatred trumps bread. They have reared children unlike any other children, removed from ordinary norms and behaviors.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “It is useless either to hate or to love truth – but it should be noticed.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “He who cries, ‘What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,’ does not know even that.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Life is that which – pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially – interrupts.”
Cynthia Ozick Quote: “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.”
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