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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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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.
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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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In my vocabulary, the word compromise is synonymous to the word life.
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I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.
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I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.
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A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.
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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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All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.
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I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.
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Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.
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My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.
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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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A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
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