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Cynthia Ozick Quotes

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

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to Picture Quote #1

Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex Picture Quote #1

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society’s logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap Picture Quote #1

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren’t grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude Picture Quote #1

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions Picture Quote #1

There’s a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how Picture Quote #1

What we think we are surely going to do, we don’t do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done Picture Quote #1

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to Picture Quote #1

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance Picture Quote #1

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After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces Picture Quote #1

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn’t matter 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 (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society’s logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren’t grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) 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 Quotes) It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) There’s a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) What we think we are surely going to do, we don’t do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn’t matter (Cynthia Ozick Quotes)

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