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The insight that the largest, deepest, widest imaginative faculty of all is what you need to be a monotheist teaches me that you simply cannot be a Jew if you repudiate the imagination.

— Cynthia Ozick Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

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Metaphor is the reciprocal agent, the universalizing force: it makes possible the power to envision the stranger's heart.

Metaphor & Memory (1991)

It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

Trust (1966)

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

Fame & folly (1996)

She thought: How hard it is to change one’s life. And again she thought: How terrifyingly simple to change the lives of others.

Foreign Bodies (2010)

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

Dictation: A Quartet (2008)

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