"Time at length becomes justice."

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Source : Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

Cynthia Ozick

#Time Quotes #Justice Quotes #Length Quotes

“Iâ€™m sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. Itâ€™s a lot safer to do it on marijuana”
“While playing complex characters you're staying in the same place but you're departing with your mind and soul and educating yourself until you can really understand such huge worlds. Those are the roles that keep loyal to the authenticity of what people are, and not caricatures. It's something that requires me to prepare for three, four months. I love the process of it, rather than, "Okay, I'm ready, I'm set with the wardrobe that somebody else chose for me."”
“Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.”

Source : barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”
“I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.”
“The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.”

Source : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.132, Penguin
“Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.”
“Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.”
“It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing.”

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