Cynthia Ozick Quotes
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Fashion anticipates.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
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My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. Something about it is really scary to me. What parent would put their child in there with mules and camels and straw?
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.
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You're only as big as your last hit.
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I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
