"Writing a poem is like having an affair,……" — Amos Oz
"Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices."
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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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Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
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Never cut loose from your longings.
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More Affair Quotes
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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