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Don't write about that which you don't know.

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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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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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I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.
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Everybody comes from somewhere.
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It's possible a Palestinian state will be installed over the heads of the Palestinians. It could be part of an agreement between the Israeli government and moderate Arab states, but not one between Israel and the Palestinians.
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I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
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I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragedy it is a clash between right and right. And, therefore it's not black and white. Sometimes, recently it is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was.
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In my vocabulary, the word compromise is synonymous to the word life.
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Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.
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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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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 actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
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I would love to leave my children and grandchildren a nicer world than the one I am going to leave them. But bearing in mind that I was born in the world of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, the legacy I leave them might not be as terrible as the legacy my parents and grandparents left to me.
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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 don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.
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Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
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Never cut loose from your longings.
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In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
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Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: Yids, get out of Palestine.
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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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