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
discovery imagination form
The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
taken ideas soul
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.
time two first-impression
Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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.
culture literature instruments
literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
history judgment happened
History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
happiness trouble
The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
piano keys faces
very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
death
Death persecutes before it executes.
death grief mourn
Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.
civilization belief produce
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
book people literature
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.