"In 1952, I had gone to England on……" — Cynthia Ozick
"In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities."
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62 Quotes by Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick has 62 quotes on this site.
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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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More Atrocities Quotes
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In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called…
— Noam Chomsky
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We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.
— Mike Newlin
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And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression,…
— Unknown Author
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
— Adolf Hitler
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In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we…
— Mark Twain
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Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity…
— Auberon Waugh
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... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human…
— Unknown Author
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Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose…
— Unknown Author
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