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Amos Oz Quotes

Amos Oz quotes

Israeli Writer May 4, 1939

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One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same. Amos Oz
Amos Oz quote: "I recommend the art of slow reading."
I recommend the art of slow reading. Amos Oz
Amos Oz quote: "On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something..."
On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. Amos Oz
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort. Amos Oz
Amos Oz quote: "A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people,..."
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops. Amos Oz
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. Amos Oz
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar. Amos Oz
Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself. Amos Oz
Amos Oz quote: "The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party..."
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic. Amos Oz
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain. Amos Oz
Amos Oz quote: "In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather."
In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather. Amos Oz
Amos Oz quote: "Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and..."
Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right. Amos Oz
Amos Oz quote: "I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor..."
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment. Amos Oz
Amos Oz quote: "All of my novels are democracies."
All of my novels are democracies. Amos Oz

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