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Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.
Amos Oz
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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
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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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My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. I write in words. I don write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors. I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.
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In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
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That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.
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Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.
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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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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'm not sure I'm happy with words such as task or role when they are attached to literature.
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Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.
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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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I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.
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Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated them.
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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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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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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 compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.
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A little more than a hundred years ago, Tel Aviv was not a city. It was a title of a novel written by an author. The Return to Zion was a name of another novel. There was a bookshelf. There was no country. There was no state. There was no nation. There was no physical Jewish reality in this country.
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Never cut loose from your longings.
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