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Cynthia Ozick (b. April 17, 1928, New York City, New York to William Ozick and Celia Regelson) is an American writer whose works are about Jewish American life. Ozick earned a B.A. from New York University in 1949 and a M.A. from Ohio State University in 1950. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (1968), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature (1973), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1982). · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Ozick, Cynthia.

"After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces."

Ozick, Cynthia on Faces
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"I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips."

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"The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap."

Ozick, Cynthia on Madness
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"In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better."

Ozick, Cynthia on Obvious
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"Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole everything follows logically: first the baby, then the placenta, then, for years and years and years until death, a way of life. It is all logic, and she who lives by the hole will live also by its logic. It is, appropriately, logic with a hole in it."

Ozick, Cynthia on Body
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"One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival."

Ozick, Cynthia on Writers and Writing
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