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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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We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the meantime, enjoy life.
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I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.
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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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If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
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My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.
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Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
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I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.
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Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: Yids, get out of Palestine.
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The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.
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My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and at peace with itself. This will be sufficient for me.
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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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Don't write about that which you don't know.
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There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.
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Everybody comes from somewhere.
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Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.
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The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.
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But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.
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Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.
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I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.
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I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.
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