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In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
— Cynthia Ozick
The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
— Cynthia Ozick
Lie, illusion, deception, she saidwas that it truly, the universal language we all speak? — Cynthia Ozick
The ordinary is the divine.
— Cynthia Ozick
He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.
— Cynthia Ozick
Very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
— Cynthia Ozick
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
— Cynthia Ozick
We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
— Cynthia Ozick
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.
— Cynthia Ozick
Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.
— Cynthia Ozick
All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.
— Cynthia Ozick
To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
— Cynthia Ozick
You can never tell how genes ricochet.
— Cynthia Ozick
I write in terror ... I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence, sometimes every syllable.
— Cynthia Ozick
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.
— Cynthia Ozick
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
— Cynthia Ozick
Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.
— Cynthia Ozick
With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
— Cynthia Ozick
Literature is for the sake of humanity.
— Cynthia Ozick
Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.
— Cynthia Ozick
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
— Cynthia Ozick
Time at length becomes justice.
— Cynthia Ozick
The engineering is secondary to the vision.
— Cynthia Ozick
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
— Cynthia Ozick
I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.
— Cynthia Ozick
James (like the far more visceral Conrad) seizes your life.
— Cynthia Ozick
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
— Cynthia Ozick
Awe consumes any brand that ignites it ...
— Cynthia Ozick
It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
— Cynthia Ozick
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
— Cynthia Ozick
It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.
— 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
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
— 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
The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
— Cynthia Ozick
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
— Cynthia Ozick
Time heals all things but one: Time.
— Cynthia Ozick
All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.
— Cynthia Ozick
Old saws have no teeth.
— Cynthia Ozick
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
— Cynthia Ozick
I think most of my life I have not felt recognized.
— 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
The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.
— Cynthia Ozick
We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.
— Cynthia Ozick
Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
— Cynthia Ozick
