Quotes of Cynthia Ozick - somelinesforyou

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

- Cynthia Ozick

“ We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ Brilliant students make good aides. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ Brilliant students make good aides. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole everything follows logically: first the baby, then the placenta, then, for years and years and years until death, a way of life. It is all logic, and she who lives by the hole will live also by its logic… ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts, stamped, imprinted, eternally seen. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said — the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ I find that writing comes from the three fingers. The thumb, the index and middle fingers. It flows out of the pen. Real writing comes out of your hand, for me, anyway. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctification. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said — the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution. ”

- 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. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ The engineering is secondary to the vision. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ I find that writing comes from the three fingers. The thumb, the index and middle fingers. It flows out of the pen. Real writing comes out of your hand, for me, anyway. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips. ”

- Cynthia Ozick
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