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NOVELISTS > novelist, short-story writer > Cynthia Ozick
I'm not afraid...
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I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
Source: We Are the Crazy Lady and Other Feisty Feminist Fables, in The First Ms. Reader, ed. by Francine Klagsbrun, 1972.
-- Cynthia Ozick, (Apr 17 1928-____), US novelist, short-story writer; Her books explore dilemmas of being Jewish in a Christian World; Trust, 1966; Levitation: Five Fictions, 1982; The Messiah of Stockholm, 1987.