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Cynthia Ozick Quotes

«Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.»
«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»
«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.»
«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.»
«To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination»
Author: Cynthia Ozick
«After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.»
Author: Cynthia Ozick | Keywords: biographies
«The engineering is secondary to the vision.»
Author: Cynthia Ozick
«Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey»
«In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning, yelling works better»
Author: 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,»
Author: Cynthia Ozick