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Cynthia Ozick

Metaphor and Memory

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    We ought to declare our gratitude for these non-existent works on two counts: first, writing that is confined to mere potentiality is in almost all instances reliably superior to words actually on a page.
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    Life is that which—pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially—interrupts.
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    Rupture doesn’t attract me: I would rather inherit coherence than smash and start over again with enigma.
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    The sentence I am writing is my cabin and my shell, compact, self-sufficient.
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    She was all profusion, abundance, fabrication
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    She was an optimist who ignored trifles; for her, God was not in the details but in the intent
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    She thought herself capable of doing anything, and did everything she imagined. But nothing was perfect. There was always some clear flaw, never visible head-on. You had to look underneath, where the seams were. The corn thrived, though not in rows. The stalks elbowed one another like gossips in a dense little village.
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    For a long time it hardly recognized itself for what it was, and was often confused with the magazine article—that shabby, team-driven, ugly, truncated, undeveloped, speedy, breezy, cheap thing.
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    It may be that the little magazines no longer define themselves as uniformly as they once did because they cannot.
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    Their work will not be taken for work.
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