--- title: "16 Different Quotes By Amos Oz" description: "16 Different quotes by Amos Oz. Plus more from Amos Oz and more Different sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ba/amos-oz-1478_different_different-musical-instruments-provide-fo_745657.png" --- > [Different musical instruments provide for different music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/different-musical-instruments-provide-for-different-music/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ba/amos-oz-1478_different_different-musical-instruments-provide-fo_745657.png) > [Things can be translated, but they become different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/things-can-be-translated-but-they-become-different/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/amos-oz-1478_different_things-can-be-translated-but-they-become_2024727.png) > [The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-whole-zionist-project-was-based-on-a-whole-spectrum-of-different/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/257/amos-oz-1478_different_the-whole-zionist-project-was-based-on-a_1688702.png) > [The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-very-same-book-even-if-it-is-translated-very-accurately-let-s-say/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc7/amos-oz-1478_book_the-very-same-book-even-if-it-is-transla_1554420.jpg) > [All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/all-you-can-see-if-you-look-through-the-window-everything-you-see-is/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5c/amos-oz-1478_different_all-you-can-see-if-you-look-through-the_861431.png) > [Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/literature-belongs-first-and-foremost-to-the-language-in-which-it-is-2/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be0/amos-oz-1478_book_literature-belongs-first-and-foremost-to_784120.png) > [Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably different than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/hebrew-has-a-system-of-tenses-which-is-in-a-big-way-different-from/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/678/amos-oz-1478_bigs_hebrew-has-a-system-of-tenses-which-is-i_2486107.png) > [There are certain concepts, which exist in English, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. Hebrew has a system of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/there-are-certain-concepts-which-exist-in-english-and-are-unthinkable/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/amos-oz-1478_concept-of-time_there-are-certain-concepts-which-exist-i_328161.png) > [I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-don-t-envy-netanyahu-s-situation-because-i-think-he-is-in-hot-water/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de2/amos-oz-1478_different_i-don-t-envy-netanyahu-s-situation-becau_1494619.png) > [When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/when-i-say-my-novels-are-set-in-israel-in-the-last-seventy-years-this/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/amos-oz-1478_books_when-i-say-my-novels-are-set-in-israel-i_2654525.png) > [The dreams and the visions of the Israeli founding fathers, these were very very ambitious dreams. They were world reformers. They wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-dreams-and-the-visions-of-the-israeli-founding-fathers-these-were/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/amos-oz-1478_ambitious_the-dreams-and-the-visions-of-the-israel_2011422.png) > [Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/literature-may-make-the-reader-reexamine-some-of-his-or-her-own/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96d/amos-oz-1478_books_literature-may-make-the-reader-reexamine_1048429.jpg) > [In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/in-some-of-the-israeli-media-but-not-all-they-read-about-very-nasty/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16a/amos-oz-1478_comparison_in-some-of-the-israeli-media-but-not-all_3018725.jpg) > [I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-don-t-think-israelis-are-less-critical-of-corruption-than-people-in/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/amos-oz-1478_america_i-don-t-think-israelis-are-less-critical_1031809.png) > [Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago. "The State of the Jews" was not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/israel-is-a-fulfilled-dream-nothing-that-exists-here-existed-here-a-2/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ff/amos-oz-1478_country_israel-is-a-fulfilled-dream-nothing-that_3054258.png) > [Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/of-course-my-books-are-translated-into-many-languages-i-have-here-in/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/amos-oz-1478_book_of-course-my-books-are-translated-into-m_2038188.png) ## Other authors on Different ## More by Amos Oz > [I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-find-the-family-the-most-mysterious-and-fascinating-institution-in/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [“All the profits that Papa made by the sweat of his brow from his mill she extorted from him and spent the lot on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/all-the-profits-that-papa-made-by-the-sweat-of-his-brow-from-his-mill/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/nobody-ever-predicted-a-week-before-president-sadat-came-to-jerusalem/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Every country in the world should follow the example of President Trump and move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But simultaneously, there should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/every-country-in-the-world-should-follow-the-example-of-president/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/actually-who-hasn-t-been-through-the-ghastly-experience-of-sitting-in/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-think-loathing-begets-fanaticism-and-in-the-end-loathing-begets/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/literature-is-about-telling-stories-now-the-gift-of-literature-is/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/very-often-fanaticism-begins-at-home-it-begins-inside-the-family-it/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/when-i-need-to-take-a-side-i-write-a-newspaper-article-and-i-tell-my/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/we-have-to-carry-through-to-the-next-day-and-hope-that-we-will-be/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Trump is many things. He is pampered. He is an immature man. He is a teenager craving unconditional, endless love from everybody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/trump-is-many-things-he-is-pampered-he-is-an-immature-man-he-is-a/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-only-way-to-keep-a-dream-any-dream-at-all-to-keep-a-dream-perfect/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [“Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/judaism-and-christianity-and-islam-too-all-drip-honeyed-words-of-love/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [Never cut loose from your longings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/never-cut-loose-from-your-longings/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) > [If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent. I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/if-people-are-pro-israel-they-are-pro-israel-one-hundred-and-twenty/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different/amos-oz/#itemlist", "name": "16 Different Quotes By Amos Oz", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Different musical instruments provide for different music.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/different-musical-instruments-provide-for-different-music/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ba/amos-oz-1478_different_different-musical-instruments-provide-fo_745657.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ba/amos-oz-1478_different_different-musical-instruments-provide-fo_745657.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ba/amos-oz-1478_different_different-musical-instruments-provide-fo_745657.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Different musical instruments provide for different music.” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Things can be translated, but they become different.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/things-can-be-translated-but-they-become-different/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/amos-oz-1478_different_things-can-be-translated-but-they-become_2024727.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/amos-oz-1478_different_things-can-be-translated-but-they-become_2024727.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/amos-oz-1478_different_things-can-be-translated-but-they-become_2024727.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Things can be translated, but they become different.” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-whole-zionist-project-was-based-on-a-whole-spectrum-of-different/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/257/amos-oz-1478_different_the-whole-zionist-project-was-based-on-a_1688702.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/257/amos-oz-1478_different_the-whole-zionist-project-was-based-on-a_1688702.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/257/amos-oz-1478_different_the-whole-zionist-project-was-based-on-a_1688702.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-very-same-book-even-if-it-is-translated-very-accurately-let-s-say/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc7/amos-oz-1478_book_the-very-same-book-even-if-it-is-transla_1554420.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc7/amos-oz-1478_book_the-very-same-book-even-if-it-is-transla_1554420.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc7/amos-oz-1478_book_the-very-same-book-even-if-it-is-transla_1554420.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/all-you-can-see-if-you-look-through-the-window-everything-you-see-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5c/amos-oz-1478_different_all-you-can-see-if-you-look-through-the_861431.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5c/amos-oz-1478_different_all-you-can-see-if-you-look-through-the_861431.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5c/amos-oz-1478_different_all-you-can-see-if-you-look-through-the_861431.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/literature-belongs-first-and-foremost-to-the-language-in-which-it-is-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be0/amos-oz-1478_book_literature-belongs-first-and-foremost-to_784120.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be0/amos-oz-1478_book_literature-belongs-first-and-foremost-to_784120.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be0/amos-oz-1478_book_literature-belongs-first-and-foremost-to_784120.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably different than any European system of tenses, which means a different sense of reality, which means a different concept of time.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/hebrew-has-a-system-of-tenses-which-is-in-a-big-way-different-from/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/678/amos-oz-1478_bigs_hebrew-has-a-system-of-tenses-which-is-i_2486107.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/678/amos-oz-1478_bigs_hebrew-has-a-system-of-tenses-which-is-i_2486107.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/678/amos-oz-1478_bigs_hebrew-has-a-system-of-tenses-which-is-i_2486107.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are certain concepts, which exist in English, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably different than any European system of tenses, which means a different sense of reality, which means a different concept of time. So, things can be translated, but they become different.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/there-are-certain-concepts-which-exist-in-english-and-are-unthinkable/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/amos-oz-1478_concept-of-time_there-are-certain-concepts-which-exist-i_328161.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/amos-oz-1478_concept-of-time_there-are-certain-concepts-which-exist-i_328161.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/amos-oz-1478_concept-of-time_there-are-certain-concepts-which-exist-i_328161.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are certain concepts, which exist in English, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of personal morality than some of our previous political leaders. What would I personally like to see? I would like to see this government go straight to hell. And I would have liked to have seen the previous government go straight to hell.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-don-t-envy-netanyahu-s-situation-because-i-think-he-is-in-hot-water/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de2/amos-oz-1478_different_i-don-t-envy-netanyahu-s-situation-becau_1494619.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de2/amos-oz-1478_different_i-don-t-envy-netanyahu-s-situation-becau_1494619.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de2/amos-oz-1478_different_i-don-t-envy-netanyahu-s-situation-becau_1494619.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds or thousands of years earlier in time. And, sometimes in very, very different places, because we all come from somewhere, especially here in Israel.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/when-i-say-my-novels-are-set-in-israel-in-the-last-seventy-years-this/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/amos-oz-1478_books_when-i-say-my-novels-are-set-in-israel-i_2654525.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/amos-oz-1478_books_when-i-say-my-novels-are-set-in-israel-i_2654525.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/amos-oz-1478_books_when-i-say-my-novels-are-set-in-israel-i_2654525.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The dreams and the visions of the Israeli founding fathers, these were very very ambitious dreams. They were world reformers. They wanted to create a new and improved kind of humanity, or at least, a new and improved Jewish society, a new and improved Jewish individual human being here. The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-dreams-and-the-visions-of-the-israeli-founding-fathers-these-were/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/amos-oz-1478_ambitious_the-dreams-and-the-visions-of-the-israel_2011422.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/amos-oz-1478_ambitious_the-dreams-and-the-visions-of-the-israel_2011422.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/amos-oz-1478_ambitious_the-dreams-and-the-visions-of-the-israel_2011422.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The dreams and the visions of the Israeli founding fathers, these were very very ambitious dreams. They were…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way, look at others in a different way. This goes way beyond just making statements or manifesting principles.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/literature-may-make-the-reader-reexamine-some-of-his-or-her-own/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96d/amos-oz-1478_books_literature-may-make-the-reader-reexamine_1048429.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96d/amos-oz-1478_books_literature-may-make-the-reader-reexamine_1048429.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96d/amos-oz-1478_books_literature-may-make-the-reader-reexamine_1048429.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to Palestinian Arabs. This is a pain in the neck for many Israelis. They say: Leave us alone, what can we do about it? Or they say: Look at Syria, look at Iraq, the West Bank is paradise by comparison. I was one of the first to say, shortly after the Six-Day War, that occupation is corrupting. It corrupts the occupier and, in a different way, it corrupts the occupied.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/in-some-of-the-israeli-media-but-not-all-they-read-about-very-nasty/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16a/amos-oz-1478_comparison_in-some-of-the-israeli-media-but-not-all_3018725.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16a/amos-oz-1478_comparison_in-some-of-the-israeli-media-but-not-all_3018725.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16a/amos-oz-1478_comparison_in-some-of-the-israeli-media-but-not-all_3018725.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a daytime Israel and a nighttime Israel. The first is self-confident, pushy and passionate, like other Mediterranean lands. It is hedonistic, materialistic and almost arrogant. During the nighttime, people are terrified, people are filled with existential dreads. These fears aren't baseless.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-don-t-think-israelis-are-less-critical-of-corruption-than-people-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/amos-oz-1478_america_i-don-t-think-israelis-are-less-critical_1031809.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/amos-oz-1478_america_i-don-t-think-israelis-are-less-critical_1031809.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/amos-oz-1478_america_i-don-t-think-israelis-are-less-critical_1031809.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago. \"The State of the Jews\" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel. A little more than a hundred years ago, \"Tel Aviv\" was not a city. It was a title of another novel written by the same author. The \"Return to Zion\" was a name of another novel. There was a bookshelf. There was no state. There was no nation. All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/israel-is-a-fulfilled-dream-nothing-that-exists-here-existed-here-a-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ff/amos-oz-1478_country_israel-is-a-fulfilled-dream-nothing-that_3054258.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ff/amos-oz-1478_country_israel-is-a-fulfilled-dream-nothing-that_3054258.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ff/amos-oz-1478_country_israel-is-a-fulfilled-dream-nothing-that_3054258.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago. \"The State of the…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books into forty-five different languages. Almost none of them I can read. I can read only the English editions. But, I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque. So, different musical instruments provide for different music.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/of-course-my-books-are-translated-into-many-languages-i-have-here-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/amos-oz-1478_book_of-course-my-books-are-translated-into-m_2038188.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/amos-oz-1478_book_of-course-my-books-are-translated-into-m_2038188.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b0/amos-oz-1478_book_of-course-my-books-are-translated-into-m_2038188.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different/amos-oz/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different/amos-oz/", "name": "Different Quotes by Amos Oz", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different/amos-oz/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ba/amos-oz-1478_different_different-musical-instruments-provide-fo_745657.png" }, "description": "16 Different quotes by Amos Oz. Plus more from Amos Oz and more Different sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different/amos-oz/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different/amos-oz/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Different", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Amos Oz", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different/amos-oz/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```