Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozickis an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 April 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
time two first-impression
Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
native-american paradise
Paradise is only for those who have already been there.
ordinary divine
The ordinary is the divine.
beautiful butterfly joy
The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.
memories wind illusion
Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.
time heal all-things
Time heals all things but one: Time.
eye balls stones
Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.
discovery rereading firsts
There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.
thinking one-day done
What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.
figments secular jew
The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
abuse rotten culture
Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.
sorrow shapes way
We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.
class america alive
Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.
communication yelling speech
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.