Amos Oz Quotes

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• Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came back to Palestine, and now…
• The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
• I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I…
• I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
• On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
• I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love,…
• All of my novels are democracies.
• But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a…
• I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are…
• I recommend the art of slow reading.
• 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…
• Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
• Never cut loose from your longings.
• If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and…
• One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our…
• 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 ahead,…
• In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
• When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.
• I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
• A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

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