#ozick

[blackswaneuroparedux]

When I hear someone…utter ‘my generation,’ I know I am in the vicinity of a light mind. . . . When we allude to ‘our age,’ either we include our predecessors and their travail (and also their bold genius) or we show ourselves to be minor in brain and intuition.

Cynthia Ozick

[onequoteperday]

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Cynthia Ozick

[onequoteperday]

What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

Cynthia Ozick

[actionmovies11-blog]

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick

[hell-nd-home]

Ceea ce ne amintim din copilărie rămâne cu noi pentru totdeauna- stafii încăpățânate, imprimate în ființa noastră, bine tipărite, conturate, mereu în fața ochilor noștri.

Cynthia Ozick

[revdak]

How is it that indifference, which on its own does no apparent or immediate positive harm, ends by washing itself in the very horrors it means to have nothing to do with? Hoping to confer no hurt, indifference finally grows lethal; why is that?

Cynthia Ozick, quoted in James Carroll, Constantine's Sword

[xbustedxmcflyx]

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude

Cynthia Ozick

[ajshinythings]

Quote

"She was not suited for the work.  She was bright enough, she could compose an acceptable sentence on her own in decent everyday practical prose; she understood much of the ordinary world; she understood him; it was only that she lacked an eye for his lightning storms, his wild rushes and terrifying breathlessness.  It grieved him that she was capable of converting a metaphor into a literalism (but this too was a metaphor) and she in her good plain way grieved that she could not satisfy his ferociously driven greed for the word, the marvelous English word. His handwriting was so difficult! But she had a cousin, she reminded him, a cousin who had gone to secretarial school; the cousin was properly trained, surely she would do better? The cousin was hired.  She did not do better."

-From Dictation by Cynthia Ozick