• What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.

    Cynthia Ozick: What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.
    Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf