Top 80 Cynthia Ozick Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Awe consumes any brand that ignites it...”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Life is that which – pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially – interrupts.”

52. “Life is that which – pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially – interrupts.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk – a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.”

53. “Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk – a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “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.”

54. “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.”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.”

55. “In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.”

56. “It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Dedication to one’s work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else’s work, not yours.”

57. “Dedication to one’s work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else’s work, not yours.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “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.”

58. “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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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Get thee to the novel! – the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart’s maelstrom.”

59. “Get thee to the novel! – the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart’s maelstrom.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.”

60. “People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Death persecutes before it executes.”

61. “Death persecutes before it executes.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “I think about fanaticism – oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.”

62. “I think about fanaticism – oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.”

63. “It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “She thought: How hard it is to change one’s life. And again she thought: How terrifyingly simple to change the lives of others.”

64. “She thought: How hard it is to change one’s life. And again she thought: How terrifyingly simple to change the lives of others.”

— Cynthia Ozick

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.”

65. “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

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “You can never tell how genes ricochet.”

66. “You can never tell how genes ricochet.”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?”

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

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.”

68. “We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.”

69. “We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.”

70. “The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one’s psychological distance from the supreme artists.”

71. “To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one’s psychological distance from the supreme artists.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.”

72. “In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “It had always been my habit – privately I felt it to be an ecstasy – to enter, as into a mysterious vault, any public library. I was drawn to books that had been read before, novels that girls like myself had cradled and cherished. In my mind – I suppose in my isolation – I seized on all those previous readers, and everyone who would read after me, as phantom companions and secret friends.”

73. “It had always been my habit – privately I felt it to be an ecstasy – to enter, as into a mysterious vault, any public library. I was drawn to books that had been read before, novels that girls like myself had cradled and cherished. In my mind – I suppose in my isolation – I seized on all those previous readers, and everyone who would read after me, as phantom companions and secret friends.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Admittedly, there is always a golden age, the one not ours, the one that once was or will someday be. One’s own time is never satisfactory, except to the very rich or the smugly oblivious.”

74. “Admittedly, there is always a golden age, the one not ours, the one that once was or will someday be. One’s own time is never satisfactory, except to the very rich or the smugly oblivious.”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.”

75. “Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.”

76. “The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Paradise is only for those who have already been there.”

77. “Paradise is only for those who have already been there.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.”

78. “Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.”

— Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Brilliant students make good aides.”

79. “Brilliant students make good aides.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.”

80. “Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Death’s reliable.”

81. “Death’s reliable.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “I write in terror... I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence, sometimes every syllable.”

82. “I write in terror... I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence, sometimes every syllable.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “If a novel’s salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.”

83. “If a novel’s salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.”

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Cynthia Ozick Quote: “Because she fears the past she distrusts the future – it, too, will turn into the past.”

84. “Because she fears the past she distrusts the future – it, too, will turn into the past.”

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