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An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Educational Essay Free Genuine Imagination Information Long Long Run Mind Movement Need Opinion Play Rarely Run Thing Trust Use

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An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Acquired Article Aura Birth Date Engaged Five Issues Likely May Moment Month Personalities Phone Rotary Stale Timely Within Years

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If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Driven Effort Essay Genuine Happenstance Linked More Motive Opportunity Propaganda Than Tract Will

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I think most of my life I have not felt recognized.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Felt Life Most My Life Recognized Think I Think

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I think it is serious to have good sales. As I learned belatedly, the more you sell, the more publishers pay attention to you, and it took me a very long time to figure that out because I never thought that way.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Attention Because Figure Good Learned Long Long Time Me More Never Out Pay Pay Attention Publishers Sales Sell Serious Think Thought Time Took Very Very Long Time Way You I Think

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With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Certain Exceptions Life Literature Moral

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The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote of conduct and of the consequences of conduct: they were concerned with a society of will and commandment.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Commandment Concerned Conduct Consequences Covenant Dickens George Jewish Novel Pinnacle Society Tolstoy Touched Were Will Wrote

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Literature is for the sake of humanity.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Humanity Literature Sake

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To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Act Again Allure Become Before Jew Lying Mind Parade Plunge Saying Stands Strenuous World Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 17th, 1928

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