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

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

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. — Cynthia Ozick

It is true that money attracts; but much money repels. — Cynthia Ozick

Time at length becomes justice. — Cynthia Ozick

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did. — Cynthia Ozick

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

I think most of my life I have not felt recognized. — Cynthia Ozick

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by. — Cynthia Ozick

Old saws have no teeth. — Cynthia Ozick

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words. — Cynthia Ozick

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing. — Cynthia Ozick

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being. — Cynthia Ozick

Time heals all things but one: Time. — Cynthia Ozick

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing. — Cynthia Ozick

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self. — Cynthia Ozick

History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened. — Cynthia Ozick

People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips — Cynthia Ozick

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas. — Cynthia Ozick

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression. — Cynthia Ozick

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer. — Cynthia Ozick

One reason writers write is out of revenge. — Cynthia Ozick

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

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

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne. — Cynthia Ozick

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to. — Cynthia Ozick

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

Death persecutes before it executes. — Cynthia Ozick

Literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it. — Cynthia Ozick

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