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\u201cA<\/strong>fter a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Cynthia Ozick<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

\u201cCynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95\u201d (June 1985) Interview with Tom Teicholz, The Paris Review<\/em>, No. 102, New York: The Paris Review, Spring 1987; online via The Paris Review, www.theparisreview.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Responding to the interviewer\u2019s question about a photo that appears at the back of her book Art & Ardor<\/em>]\n

\u201cAnxiety at worst but not a scowl. I hope not a scowl! Especially since after a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf635381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: \u201cCynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95\u201d (Spring 1987) online via The Paris Review<\/em>: http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2693\/the-art-of-fiction-no-95-cynthia-ozick<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cFear of hostility is less useful than hostility to fear.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Cynthia Ozick<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Trust<\/em> (1966) New York: New American Library, p. 560; online via Open Library [free subscription service] openlibrary.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e625381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Fiction. Full verse cited \u2013 appears in a list of the narrative\u2019s thoughts]:<\/p>\n

\u201cFear of hostility is less useful than hostility to fear.<\/span>\u201d (p. 560)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/span><\/strong><\/em>: Library – Trust<\/em> (1966) online via Open Library [free subscription service]: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/trustnovel00ozic#page\/560\/mode\/1up\/search\/communicable+disease<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cGodlessness inevitably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Cynthia Ozick<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Trust<\/em> (1966) New York: New American Library, p. 280; online via Open Library [free subscription service] openlibrary.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” add_icon=”true” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1453315828190-b4d7b461-d58d5381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misquote notes<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Some sources misquoted Ozick by substituting the word \u2018inevitably<\/strong><\/span>\u2019 for \u2018invariably<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u2019:<\/p>\n

Original text<\/em><\/span>: \u201cGodlessness inevitably<\/strong><\/span> produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Misquote<\/em><\/span>: \u201cGodlessness invariably<\/strong><\/span> produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Fiction]:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a story short, slight, and common; but it was not vulgar. If the story had been mine it would, I think, have been vulgar. Godlessness inevitably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.<\/span>\u201d (p. 280)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library – Trust<\/em> (1966) online via Open Library [free subscription service]: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/trustnovel00ozic#page\/280\/mode\/2up\/search\/produces+vulgarity<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cIn real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Cynthia Ozick<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

\u201cMorgan and Maurice: A Fairy Tale\u201d (December 1971) Commentary<\/em> magazine; reprint in Art & Ardor: Essays<\/em>, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983, p. 64<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Book review; analysis of E.M. Forster\u2019s Maurice<\/em>]\n

\u201cThe essence of a fairy tale is that wishing does make it so: the wish achieves its own fulfillment through its very steadfastness of desire. That is why fairy tales, despite their dark tones and the vicissitudes they contain so abundantly, are so obviously akin to daydreams \u2013 daydreaming is a sloughing-off of society, not an analysis of it. To wish is not to explain; to wish is not to reform. In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.<\/span>\u201d (p. 64)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: Library \u2013 Art & Ardor: Essays<\/em> (1983) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-394-53082-9<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cIn saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Cynthia Ozick<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

“We Are the Crazy Lady and Other Feisty Feminist Fables” (Spring 1972) Ms.<\/em> magazine; reprint in The First Ms. Reader, <\/em>ed. Francine Klagsbrun, New York: Warner Paperback Library ed., Sept. 1973, p. 65<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [End of essay segment, Part IV: \u2018Propaganda\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201cMoral: In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.<\/span>\u201d (p. 65)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 The First Ms. Reader <\/em>(1972|1973 Warner Paperback Library ed.) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 772386<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cLife is that which \u2013 pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially \u2013 interrupts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Cynthia Ozick<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

\u201cHow Writers Live Today\u201d (August 1985) Esquire<\/em> magazine; reprint as \u201cPear Tree and Polar Bear: A Word on Life and Art,\u201d Metaphor & Memory<\/em>, New York: Alfred A. Knopf\/Borzoi Books, 1989, p. 111<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Essay]:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs for life, I don\u2019t like it. I notice no \u201cinterplay of life and art.\u201d Life is that which \u2013 pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially \u2013 interrupts.<\/span>\u201d (p. 111)<\/p>\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library \u2013 Metaphor & Memory<\/em> (1989) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-394-54701-2<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cPeople who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Cynthia Ozick<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Are the Crazy Lady and Other Feisty Feminist Fables\u201d (Spring 1972) Ms.<\/em> magazine; reprint in The First Ms. Reader, <\/em>ed. Francine Klagsbrun, New York: Warner Paperback Library ed., Sept. 1973, p. 67<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Essay, Part V: \u2018Hormones\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201cI welcome facts \u2013 but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called \u201cscientific\u201d mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.<\/span>\u201d (p. 67)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 The First Ms. Reader <\/em>(1972|1973 Warner Paperback Library ed.) Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 772386<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cResentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Cynthia Ozick<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Trust<\/em> (1966) New York: New American Library, p. 558; online via Open Library [free subscription service] openlibrary.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Fiction. Full line cited \u2013 appears in a list of the narrative\u2019s thoughts]:<\/p>\n

\u201cResentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.<\/span>\u201d (p. 558)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Library – Trust<\/em> (1966) online via Open Library [free subscription service]: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/trustnovel00ozic#page\/558\/mode\/1up\/search\/communicable+disease<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWhat we remember from childhood we remember forever \u2013 permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Cynthia Ozick<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

\u201cEnchantments at First Encounter\u201d (17 March 1985) The New York Times Magazine<\/em>, Part II, in The New York Times<\/em>, Vol. CXXIV, No. 46,351, New York: New York Times Company, p. 30, column 2 [pg. 529 of full edition .pdf file]; online via TimesMachine\u2019 archive [subscription service] timesmachine.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Essay]\n

\u201cTravel returns us in just this way to sharpness of notice; and to be saturated in the sight of what is entirely new \u2013 the sun at an unaccustomed slope, stretched across the northland, separate from the infiltrating dusk that always seems about to fall through clear gray Stockholm \u2013 is to revisit the enigmatically lit puppet-stage outlines of childhood: those mental photographs and dreaming woodcuts or engravings that we retain from our earliest years. What we remember from childhood we remember forever \u2013 permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen<\/span>. Travelers regain this ghost-seizing brightness, eeriness, firstness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: \u201cEnchantments at First Encounter\u201d was later included as part of the essay \u201cThe Shock of Teapots\u201d in Ozick\u2019s Metaphors & Memory<\/em>, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, p. 143<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5be93-14de”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cEnchantments at First Encounter\u201d (17 March 1985) The New York Times Magazine<\/em>; online via The New York Times, \u2018TimesMachine\u2019 archive [subscription service]: https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1985\/03\/17\/099586.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Source <\/em><\/strong>[Text reprint, as part of essay “The Shock of Teapots”]<\/span>: Library – Metaphors & Memory<\/em> (1989) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-394-54701-2<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Cynthia Ozick <\/strong><\/span>| Here are a few good places to find out more –<\/p>\n