"I measure my life in sentences pressed out,……" — Cynthia Ozick
"I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar."
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Cynthia Ozick
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62 Quotes by Cynthia Ozick
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It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
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I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a…
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Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
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When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull…
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The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.
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The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk…
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I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This…
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