Inspirational Quote by Cynthia Ozick

“Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.”

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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.

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The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

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Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

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“The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to the Germans…

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To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders…

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Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer…

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literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

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I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you…

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I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and…

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An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion,…

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There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish…

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Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

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You cant be controlling in improv.

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Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

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It's not the method, it's the mindset.

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It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.

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Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

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We never really perceive what color is physically!

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