--- title: "15 Way Quotes By Amos Oz" description: "15 Way quotes by Amos Oz. Plus more from Amos Oz and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/amos-oz-1478_arafat_in-many-ways-i-regard-sharon-and-arafat_292203.png" --- > [In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/in-many-ways-i-regard-sharon-and-arafat-as-birds-of-a-feather/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/amos-oz-1478_arafat_in-many-ways-i-regard-sharon-and-arafat_292203.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 the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/in-the-same-way-in-which-music-is-made-of-notes-and-a-painting-is/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da4/amos-oz-1478_books_in-the-same-way-in-which-music-is-made-o_1246864.png) > [The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-only-way-to-keep-a-dream-any-dream-at-all-to-keep-a-dream-perfect-2/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b21/amos-oz-1478_dream_the-only-way-to-keep-a-dream-any-dream-a_1817232.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) > [The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-kibbutz-way-of-life-is-not-for-everyone-it-is-meant-for-people/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d1/amos-oz-1478_business_the-kibbutz-way-of-life-is-not-for-every_2979302.jpg) > [The Jews have a powerful ally, America, but they do not really have a bigger family in the same way that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-jews-have-a-powerful-ally-america-but-they-do-not-really-have-a/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/amos-oz-1478_able_the-jews-have-a-powerful-ally-america-bu_1403823.png) > [I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-don-t-think-a-novel-s-main-donation-main-gift-is-the-document-the/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c22/amos-oz-1478_books_i-don-t-think-a-novel-s-main-donation-ma_1238211.png) > [What is likely to happen? Either an escalation of violence or an entire change in the whole Middle East theater. It may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/what-is-likely-to-happen-either-an-escalation-of-violence-or-an/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/837/amos-oz-1478_behinds_what-is-likely-to-happen-either-an-escal_1478888.png) > [When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/when-i-was-little-my-ambition-was-to-grow-up-to-be-a-book-not-a/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48b/amos-oz-1478_ambition_when-i-was-little-my-ambition-was-to-gro_1332254.png) > [She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/she-had-not-wanted-him-to-but-had-let-him-have-his-way-because-ever/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12e/amos-oz-1478_acceptance_she-had-not-wanted-him-to-but-had-let-hi_253211.png) > [When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/when-i-say-compromise-i-do-not-mean-capitulation-when-i-say/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/435/amos-oz-1478_capitulation_when-i-say-compromise-i-do-not-mean-capi_2691344.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) > [I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-follow-the-way-people-change-i-follow-the-way-people-who-are-very/) [Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f7/amos-oz-1478_change_i-follow-the-way-people-change-i-follow_883713.png) > [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) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/amos-oz/#itemlist", "name": "15 Way Quotes By Amos Oz", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/in-many-ways-i-regard-sharon-and-arafat-as-birds-of-a-feather/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/amos-oz-1478_arafat_in-many-ways-i-regard-sharon-and-arafat_292203.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/amos-oz-1478_arafat_in-many-ways-i-regard-sharon-and-arafat_292203.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/amos-oz-1478_arafat_in-many-ways-i-regard-sharon-and-arafat_292203.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "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. 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They will not be able to understand how Netanyahu could win the last election by saying the Iranians are coming, Islamic State (IS) is coming, the Arabs are coming, and the whole world hates us anyway.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/the-jews-have-a-powerful-ally-america-but-they-do-not-really-have-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/amos-oz-1478_able_the-jews-have-a-powerful-ally-america-bu_1403823.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/amos-oz-1478_able_the-jews-have-a-powerful-ally-america-bu_1403823.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/amos-oz-1478_able_the-jews-have-a-powerful-ally-america-bu_1403823.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Jews have a powerful ally, America, but they do not really have a bigger family in the same way that…” — Amos Oz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation. It goes into opening a new vista, opening a new perspective, showing familiar things in an unfamiliar way, and making the reader reconsider the documentary facts which he or she may have known before.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-don-t-think-a-novel-s-main-donation-main-gift-is-the-document-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c22/amos-oz-1478_books_i-don-t-think-a-novel-s-main-donation-ma_1238211.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c22/amos-oz-1478_books_i-don-t-think-a-novel-s-main-donation-ma_1238211.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c22/amos-oz-1478_books_i-don-t-think-a-novel-s-main-donation-ma_1238211.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. 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They had their moment when the world's public opinion was behind them, and a considerable part of the Israeli public was willing to compromise with them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amos Oz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/what-is-likely-to-happen-either-an-escalation-of-violence-or-an/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/837/amos-oz-1478_behinds_what-is-likely-to-happen-either-an-escal_1478888.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/837/amos-oz-1478_behinds_what-is-likely-to-happen-either-an-escal_1478888.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/837/amos-oz-1478_behinds_what-is-likely-to-happen-either-an-escal_1478888.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What is likely to happen? 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