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I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.
Amos Oz
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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
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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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Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.
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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 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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Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
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I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.
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Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.
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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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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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Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.
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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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Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.
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I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.
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Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.
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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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I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.
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Everybody comes from somewhere.
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