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I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.

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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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Essayist
Journalist
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Pedagogue
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Jerusalem
Middle East
Amos Klausner
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Death
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Fanaticism

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She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in.
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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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You know, gynecology has a role sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.
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I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.
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Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand a short story is a romance, a relationship a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.
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The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.
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Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.
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Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance.
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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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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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There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.
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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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But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.
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A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
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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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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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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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