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Everybody comes from somewhere.

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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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There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.
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Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.
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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 I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds or thousands of years earlier in time. And, sometimes in very, very different places, because we all come from somewhere, especially here in Israel.
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All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.
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One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.
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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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My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.
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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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The State of the Jews was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel.
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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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Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English.
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Universally, not only in Israel, people want to feel good about themselves. We all want to feel good to some extent.
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I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.
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I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.
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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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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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I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as task or role when they are attached to literature.
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The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
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All of my novels are democracies.
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