"Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly,……" — Cynthia Ozick
"Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts."
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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.
- To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
- The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
- To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
- I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a…
- Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
- When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull…
- The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.
- The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
- Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk…
- I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This…
- One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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