To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to. - Cynthia Ozick
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
- Cynthia Ozick
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination - Cynthia Ozick
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. - Cynthia Ozick
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. - Cynthia Ozick
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself. - Cynthia Ozick
Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage. - Cynthia Ozick
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.
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 g… - 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 g…
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. - Cynthia Ozick
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. - Cynthia Ozick
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
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