"When something does not insist on being noticed,……" — Cynthia Ozick
"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."
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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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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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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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More Collar Quotes
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I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential…
— James Cameron
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So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar…
— Tori Amos
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Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or…
— Edward Alsworth Ross
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They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and…
— George Carlin
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go…
— Ann Brashares
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The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I…
— Yao Ming
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The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."
— Elmer Davis
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to…
— W L George
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Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in…
— Robert Breault
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was…
— Bernie Mac
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Girls, you know it's all just a game to them, relationships. Just go around stomping on everyone.... I mean, look…
— Robert Pattinson
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There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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