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title: "3 Irrevocable Quotes By Amos Oz"
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> [I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-am-an-old-man-and-i-have-seen-things-get-revoked-things-which/)

[Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/)

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> [Over 70 years after Hitler, a German chancellor, a woman, is the leader of the free world. So don't talk to me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/over-70-years-after-hitler-a-german-chancellor-a-woman-is-the-leader/)

[Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/)

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> [The far right is saying to us: Forget about the two-state solution, it is going to be a Jewish state from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-far-right-is-saying-to-us-forget-about-the-two-state-solution-it/)

[Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/)

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## 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/)

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