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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
Author
Essayist
Journalist
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Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
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University Teacher
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Jerusalem
Middle East
Amos Klausner
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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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Things can be translated, but they become different.
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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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A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
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My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.
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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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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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If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent. I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.
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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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I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
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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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Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.
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You know, gynecology has a role sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.
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I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as task or role when they are attached to literature. I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task. You know, gynecology has a role sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.
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The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.
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Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?
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If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent.
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The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.
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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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