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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
Amos Klausner
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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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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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Over 70 years after Hitler, a German chancellor, a woman, is the leader of the free world. So don't talk to me about irrevocable.
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Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.
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Now, Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. The fact that it is flawed is not so much a testimony about the failures of Israel. No, it is a testimony about the nature of dreams.
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I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
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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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A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.
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The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.
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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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All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place. The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well. And, that's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. Don't write about that which you don't know.
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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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The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.
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I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.
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Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?
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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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The morning I woke up and it was announced that Trump was the elected president of the United States, I wrote to Angela Merkel. I said that she - at least for me - is now the leader of the free world.
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We all begin much much much earlier. In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport.
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I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.
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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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