"To want to be what one can be…" — Cynthia Ozick

"To want to be what one can be is purpose in life."

— Cynthia Ozick

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62 Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
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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Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream… — Neil Armstrong
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Learn from your dreams what you lack. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. — Roger Babson
True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have… — Richard Bach
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the… — Gaston Bachelard

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