238 Quotes by Amos Oz

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    The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

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    A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

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    If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.

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    I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.

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    Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

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    And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

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    Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.

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    I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

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    When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn our other cheek to our enemies. Compromise means, try to meet the other somewhere half-way. And, this can only happen if the other is willing to go half-way in order to meet you. That is the very strict line between compromise and capitulation.

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