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Never cut loose from your longings.

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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Linguist
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
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Jerusalem
Middle East
Amos Klausner
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Never
Longings
Loose
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I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.
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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 think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.
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Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.
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Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance.
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Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.
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I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
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Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.
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Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
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Literature is about telling stories.
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Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated them.
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I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.
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The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.
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I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
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There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.
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Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.
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A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
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A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.
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In my essays and articles I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.
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I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.
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The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.
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