Dad scowls. "Phen." He says the name like it's a swear word. "Disgusting, cowardly creatures, the ambivalent. Worse than the fallen, in many ways." His eyes are so fierce it's a tad scary. "They have no conviction at all.
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thin line between being brilliant... CYNTHIA HEIMEL We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Ke... CYNTHIA MCKINNEY It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had... CYNTHIA WEIL There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to... CYNTHIA KENYON If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks. CYNTHIA NELMS One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one want... CYNTHIA OZICK The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials. CYNTHIA NELMS She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away. CYNTHIA VOIGT Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole e... CYNTHIA OZICK In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. CYNTHIA OZICK I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This... CYNTHIA OZICK After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our f... CYNTHIA OZICK Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the... CYNTHIA HEIMEL The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to ... CYNTHIA OZICK Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes co... CYNTHIA HEIMEL Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes co... CYNTHIA HEIMEL In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. CYNTHIA OZICK Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. CYNTHIA NELMS I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea. CYNTHIA PAYNE All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure f... CYNTHIA HEIMEL Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't... CYNTHIA NIXON We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and re... CYNTHIA WEIL Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyle... CYNTHIA MCKINNEY An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if... CYNTHIA OZICK To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of... CYNTHIA OZICK By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith Colle... CYNTHIA VOIGT After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. CYNTHIA OZICK If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they... CYNTHIA BREAZEAL Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to... CYNTHIA NIXON When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliant... CYNTHIA HEIMEL One of my favourite pieces is 'Antony and Cleopatra' - I'd love to be in that. Or an alt... CYNTHIA ERIVO Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee... CYNTHIA OZICK Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don... CYNTHIA NIXON Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they... CYNTHIA NIXON The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter n... CYNTHIA WEIL Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I'... CYNTHIA KENYON What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, eve... CYNTHIA ERIVO An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is like... CYNTHIA OZICK I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanati... CYNTHIA OZICK There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm comp... CYNTHIA ERIVO Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous break... CYNTHIA WEIL I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characte... CYNTHIA OZICK Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably n... CYNTHIA NIXON I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading no... CYNTHIA KENYON