Cynthia Ozick

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Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.

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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.

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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.

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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.

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