All Amos Oz Quotes
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.
Amos Oz
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I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
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Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
Amos Oz
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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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On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
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In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
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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.
Amos Oz
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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
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Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
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I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
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The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
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