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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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Jerusalem
Middle East
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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 want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.
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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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If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.
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All of my novels are democracies.
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On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
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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'm not sure I'm happy with words such as task or role when they are attached to literature.
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I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every one of us Israeli writers is a William Shakespeare, but there is a certain similarity to Elizabethan English.
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I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a character who will be the spokesperson of the Israeli Left, another one will be the spokesperson of the Right, another one will be the spokesperson of Middle Eastern Jews, European Jews, religions Jews and so on.
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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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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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My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace. I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.
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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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I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
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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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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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The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.
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Things can be translated, but they become different.
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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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