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Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

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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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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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I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.
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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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I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.
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I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.
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Things can be translated, but they become different.
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Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
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Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves activists. They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary.
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The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.
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I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.
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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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There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.
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I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as task or role when they are attached to literature.
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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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All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.
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My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.
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Literature is about telling stories.
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I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to one another and vice-versa. Sometimes I follow the way people who are intimately close to each other move apart. This is my business as a novelist. It is not about positions and ideas.
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When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, You should not do that, you should do this. They don't listen to me, but I've been doing this for sixty years now. But, when I write a novel, I am not in that business.
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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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