"She had not wanted him to but had……" — Amos Oz
"She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in."
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31 Quotes by Amos Oz
Amos Oz has 31 quotes on this site.
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Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came…
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The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
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I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much…
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I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
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On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
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I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano…
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All of my novels are democracies.
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But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position…
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I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and…
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I recommend the art of slow reading.
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Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a…
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Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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