Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey
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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.Cynthia Ozick
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
Cynthia Ozick
I find that writing comes from the three fingers. The thumb, the index and middle fingers. It flows out of the pen. Real writing comes out of your hand, for me, anyway,
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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.
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I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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