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Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.

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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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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, let's see you lay a finger on me? A blank page is actually a whitewashed wall with no door and no window. Beginning to tell a story is like making a pass at a total stranger in a restaurant.
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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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All of my novels are democracies.
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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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Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are the good guys? They launch a demonstration against the bad guys, sign a petition in favor of the good guys, and going to sleep feeling well about themselves.
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A little more than a hundred years ago, Tel Aviv was not a city. It was a title of a novel written by an author. The Return to Zion was a name of another novel. There was a bookshelf. There was no country. There was no state. There was no nation. There was no physical Jewish reality in this country.
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The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.
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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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I recommend the art of slow reading.
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I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.
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We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the meantime, enjoy life.
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My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and at peace with itself. This will be sufficient for me.
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Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
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You know, gynecology has a role sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.
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We all begin much much much earlier. 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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Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
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Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded. It may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.
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Universally, not only in Israel, people want to feel good about themselves. We all want to feel good to some extent.
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Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?
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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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