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Cynthia Ozick Quotes

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression Picture Quote #1

Literature is for the sake of humanity Picture Quote #1

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a ‘career’, but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer Picture Quote #1

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self Picture Quote #1

The ordinary is the divine Picture Quote #1

It is true that money attracts; but much money repels Picture Quote #1

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, ‘I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.’ Influence is perdition Picture Quote #1

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Old saws have no teeth Picture Quote #1

Paradise is only for those who have already been there Picture Quote #1

Time heals all things but one: Time Picture Quote #1

Literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it Picture Quote #1

Death persecutes before it executes Picture Quote #1

Very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys Picture Quote #1

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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself Picture Quote #1

He who cries, ‘What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,’ does not know even that Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language Picture Quote #1

The Hebrew Bible has long been the world’s possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim Picture Quote #1

When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes Picture Quote #1

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To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one’s psychological distance from the supreme artists Picture Quote #1

If I’ve ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would’ve been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn’t, and that was because of fanaticism Picture Quote #1

I can’t claim to be disenchanted with the current state of fiction because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don’t want a jumble of other people’s voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don’t create static in that silence Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Literature is for the sake of humanity (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Awe consumes any brand that ignites it (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) 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 (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a ‘career’, but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) The ordinary is the divine (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) It is true that money attracts; but much money repels (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, ‘I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.’ Influence is perdition. (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Old saws have no teeth (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Paradise is only for those who have already been there (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Time heals all things but one: Time (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Death persecutes before it executes (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) He who cries, ‘What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,’ does not know even that (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) 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 Quotes) Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) The Hebrew Bible has long been the world’s possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim. (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes. (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one’s psychological distance from the supreme artists. (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) If I’ve ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would’ve been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn’t, and that was because of fanaticism. (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) I can’t claim to be disenchanted with the current state of fiction because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history. (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) 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 Quotes) I don’t like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don’t want a jumble of other people’s voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don’t create static in that silence. (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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