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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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Amos Oz
Age: 79 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 4
Died: 2018
Died: December 28
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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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I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
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We all begin much much much earlier. 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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Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions.
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I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.
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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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Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.
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Over 70 years after Hitler, a German chancellor, a woman, is the leader of the free world. So don't talk to me about irrevocable.
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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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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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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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Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.
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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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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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I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.
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When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.
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