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

Cynthia Ozick


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

Cynthia Ozick


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This is what travelers discover: that when you sever the links of normality and its claims, when you break off from the quotidian, it is the teapots that truly shock.

Cynthia Ozick


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James (like the far more visceral Conrad) seizes your life.

Cynthia Ozick


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

Cynthia Ozick


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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

Cynthia Ozick


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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Cynthia Ozick


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Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

Cynthia Ozick

Tags: deception lies humanity language



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The novella will be called, I think, “The Messiah of Stockholm.” It takes place in Stockholm. I’d better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out.

Cynthia Ozick

Tags: writing writing-process creativity-paris-review



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