238 Quotes by Amos Oz

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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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    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.

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    I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

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    The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.

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    For more than 30 years, ... the settlers' dream has overwhelmed the dream of secular Israelis. Day in and day out, the vision of Greater Israel and the reign of the Messiah crushed the hope of being a free people and building a just society.

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    Two years ago, a sudden change occurred. Sharon's rhetoric changed overnight.

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    The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages.

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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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    That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

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