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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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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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Essayist
Journalist
Linguist
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
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Jerusalem
Middle East
Amos Klausner
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German
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All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.
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I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.
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Democracy in many parts of the world is undergoing a very deep crisis. Politics is becoming a branch of the entertainment industry. People vote not for the best leader, but for the funniest candidate.
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Don't write about that which you don't know.
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Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
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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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The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.
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Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.
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Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.
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I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.
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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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Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.
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Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand a short story is a romance, a relationship a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.
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All of my novels are democracies.
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Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.
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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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Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.
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I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.
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Everybody comes from somewhere.
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The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.
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