Cynthia Ozick Quotes

If Introspection Is Thought, Marvin Was Not Introspective. He Felt The Contempt He Lived Under As Raw Sensation, As Heat
heat In The Ears, Behind The Eyes, In The Tangled Ganglia Sheathed By The Skull. And Contempt, It Seemed, Was No Different From Fear. At Princeton He Became Afraid. It Dawned On Him That It Was Not Enough To Be Bright (all Townsend Harris Boys Were Bright): You Had To Be Right. For The First Time He Was Struck By The Import Of Birthright
you Slid Out Of The Womb Grasping It In Your Tiny Fist, A Certificate That Guaranteed You Would Know How To Speak And Dress And Scorn And Brazenly Intimidate Everyone Doomed To Enter The World Empty-handed. Not That Marvin Was Altogether Empty-handed
he Had His Scholarship, And He Had, Most Of All, The Engine Of His Will And The Grim Burden Of His Hurt. He Resisted Humiliation By Accepting It, Sometimes Almost Appearing To Invite It: It Taught Him What Was Suitable And What Wasn't.

Cynthia Ozick Quotes: If Introspection Is Thought, Marvin Was Not Introspective. He Felt The Contempt He Lived Under As Raw Sensation, As Heatheat

Cynthia Ozick Quotes: If Introspection Is Thought, Marvin Was Not Introspective. He Felt The Contempt He Lived Under As Raw Sensation, As Heatheat

Cynthia Ozick Quotes: If Introspection Is Thought, Marvin Was Not Introspective. He Felt The Contempt He Lived Under As Raw Sensation, As Heatheat

Cynthia Ozick Quotes: If Introspection Is Thought, Marvin Was Not Introspective. He Felt The Contempt He Lived Under As Raw Sensation, As Heatheat

Cynthia Ozick Quotes: If Introspection Is Thought, Marvin Was Not Introspective. He Felt The Contempt He Lived Under As Raw Sensation, As Heatheat

Cynthia Ozick Quotes: If Introspection Is Thought, Marvin Was Not Introspective. He Felt The Contempt He Lived Under As Raw Sensation, As Heatheat

Cynthia Ozick Quotes: If Introspection Is Thought, Marvin Was Not Introspective. He Felt The Contempt He Lived Under As Raw Sensation, As Heatheat

Cynthia Ozick Quotes: If Introspection Is Thought, Marvin Was Not Introspective. He Felt The Contempt He Lived Under As Raw Sensation, As Heatheat

Cynthia Ozick Quotes: If Introspection Is Thought, Marvin Was Not Introspective. He Felt The Contempt He Lived Under As Raw Sensation, As Heatheat

Cynthia Ozick Quotes: If Introspection Is Thought, Marvin Was Not Introspective. He Felt The Contempt He Lived Under As Raw Sensation, As Heatheat

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