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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
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Jerusalem
Middle East
Amos Klausner
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No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.
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I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.
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I recommend the art of slow reading.
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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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In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport.
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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 contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
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Recently with IS and Islamist fanaticism, it has become easy for the Israeli government to simply push the Palestinian struggle for self-determination into the same ranks as these fundamentalist movements.
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My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.
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It's possible a Palestinian state will be installed over the heads of the Palestinians. It could be part of an agreement between the Israeli government and moderate Arab states, but not one between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.
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Democracy in many parts of the world is undergoing a very deep crisis. Politics is becoming a branch of the entertainment industry. People vote not for the best leader, but for the funniest candidate.
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We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.
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The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.
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Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion.
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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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I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a character who will be the spokesperson of the Israeli Left, another one will be the spokesperson of the Right, another one will be the spokesperson of Middle Eastern Jews, European Jews, religions Jews and so on.
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The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.
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The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.
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The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages.
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