We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
—Cynthia Ozick
Topics: Gratitude
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
—Cynthia Ozick
Topics: Communication
When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren’t grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
—Cynthia Ozick
Topics: Obstacles, Difficulty, Vision, Goals, Aspirations, Gratitude, Blessings
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
—Cynthia Ozick
Topics: Imagination
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society’s logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
—Cynthia Ozick
Topics: Madness
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