It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions. - Cynthia Ozick

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Recently I have done some circles that are almost that large and I've come all the way around after walking for an hour and I have hit the other side exactly. I mean exactly the right spot which is very strange. Believe me it's very, very strange.

Cynthia Ozick

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

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Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.

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One reason writers write is out of revenge.

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Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.

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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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