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Cynthia Ozick Quotes

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 17, 1928

Topics

Space Small Look Matter Profound

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Community Society Long Over Common

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

Talent Poverty You Too Much Limit

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

Love Money New York Museum New Open

I use the traditional phone noise that's built into iOS. I like an actual ringing sound.

Phone Sound Noise Like Built Use

I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions.

Questions Worry Enough Look Read

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

Marriage Community Parents Me You

Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.

Love Writing Reading Prince Online

I never want to lose sight of my roots... A lot of artists want the riches and the fame. I want to tell stories you can put into the context of your life.

Lukas Forchhammer

Life Roots You Lose Fame Want

In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously.

Work Good Good Work America Doing

Bathrooms have always been a big issue in my life. My parents fought for me to be able to enroll in elementary school as a girl, which I did. But I still would not be allowed to use the girls' room under any condition.

Life Girl School Parents Me My Life

If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.

Me Book Artist Dream Too Much Know

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Constantin Stanislavski

Talent Attention Nothing Mental

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