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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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I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.
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Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.
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Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.
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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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Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way, look at others in a different way. This goes way beyond just making statements or manifesting principles.
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Never cut loose from your longings.
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The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.
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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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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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The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.
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When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.
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I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.
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The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
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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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All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.
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Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.
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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 don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation. It goes into opening a new vista, opening a new perspective, showing familiar things in an unfamiliar way, and making the reader reconsider the documentary facts which he or she may have known before.
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Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably different than any European system of tenses, which means a different sense of reality, which means a different concept of time.
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I recommend the art of slow reading.
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