"After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies."

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Source : "Cynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95". Interview with Tom Teicholz, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1987.

Cynthia Ozick

#Years Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Age Quotes

“We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.”
“I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.”
“You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.”
“Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.”
“The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (1958). “Essays in Appreciation”
“The people I know who SWEAR THE MOST tend to have the widest vocabularies.”
“I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity.”
“Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone.”

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