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I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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Jerusalem
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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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The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.
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The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
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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 secrets are the same.
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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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I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.
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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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In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
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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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The morning I woke up and it was announced that Trump was the elected president of the United States, I wrote to Angela Merkel. I said that she - at least for me - is now the leader of the free world.
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In my vocabulary, the word compromise is synonymous to the word life.
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Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.
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Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.
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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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Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.
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Different musical instruments provide for different music.
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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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It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
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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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Things can be translated, but they become different.
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