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Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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Journalist
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Jerusalem
Middle East
Amos Klausner
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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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Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
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Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.
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Literature is about telling stories.
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That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.
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Never cut loose from your longings.
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If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.
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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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I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.
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My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace. I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.
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Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead, let's see you lay a finger on me? A blank page is actually a whitewashed wall with no door and no window. Beginning to tell a story is like making a pass at a total stranger in a restaurant.
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Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.
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I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.
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I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.
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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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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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In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.
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Different musical instruments provide for different music.
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I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
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There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.
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