What did Cynthia Ozick mean by: Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of ‘classic’: Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm. - Cynthia Ozick Writer Copy
+ To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Cynthia Ozick, Listening, Thrones, 0 - Cynthia Ozick Writer
+ It is useless either to hate or to love truth – but it should be noticed. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Cynthia Ozick, Hate, Truth, Useless, 0 - Cynthia Ozick Writer
+ literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Cynthia Ozick, Culture, Instruments, Literature, 0 - Cynthia Ozick Writer
+ Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Cynthia Ozick, First Impression, Time, 0 - Cynthia Ozick Writer
+ The imagination has resources and intimations we don’t even know about. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Cynthia Ozick, Imagination, Resources, 0 - Cynthia Ozick Writer
+ Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Cynthia Ozick, Abuse, Culture, Rotten, 0 - Cynthia Ozick Writer
+ In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Cynthia Ozick, Communication, Women, Yelling, 0 - Cynthia Ozick Writer
+ Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom? Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Cynthia Ozick, Freedom, Gun, 0 - Cynthia Ozick Writer
To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
I have always had a need for attention but didn’t plan to be a comic. - Jenny Eclair Comedian · England
You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book. - Matthew Vaughn Film director · United Kingdom
Television is what made It’s a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. - Leonard Maltin Film critic and historian · USA
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. - William Gaddis Novelist