Amos Oz Quotes - Page 7

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

  Amos Oz

  Tiny, Born, Lows

  Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

  Amos Oz

  Dream, Country, Writing

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English. The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. Every language has influences and is an influence.

  Amos Oz

  Latin, Greek, Language

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• It's possible a Palestinian state will be installed over the heads of the Palestinians. It could be part of an agreement between the Israeli government and moderate Arab states, but not one between Israel and the Palestinians.

  Amos Oz

  Government, Israel, Agreement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Recently with IS and Islamist fanaticism, it has become easy for the Israeli government to simply push the Palestinian struggle for self-determination into the same ranks as these fundamentalist movements.

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  Determination, Struggle, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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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  Book, Musical, Different

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance.

  Amos Oz

  Writing, Issues, Television

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent.

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  Israel, People, Twenties

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

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  Tasks, Roles, Literature

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

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  Color, Literature, Lines

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance. I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as, "Let us change a policy or stop the settlements," Or, "Let us strive for peace." This is not what it is about.

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  Writing, Simple, Appearance

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

  Amos Oz

  Ideas, Literature, Analysis

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• Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

  Amos Oz

  Literature, Language, Made

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.

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  Black And White, World, Palestine

  "Everybody comes from somewhere". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque.

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  Piano, Trying, Literature

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the lack of imagination of the old Israeli elites. It's a human story, in my view, first and foremost about a mystical communion between enemies. This is the inner story of the novel. This is my business as a novelist. It is not about positions and ideas.

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  Religious, Imagination, Black

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds or thousands of years earlier in time. And, sometimes in very, very different places, because we all come from somewhere, especially here in Israel.

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  Israel, Years, Lasts

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• 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.

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  Sea, Political, Pieces

  "Coping with Conflict: Israeli Author Amos Oz". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. January 22, 2002.

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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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  Parent, Scales, Western

  Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.

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  Vocabulary, Israel, Ideas

  "Try a Little Tenderness". Haaretz Interview, March 17, 2000.

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

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  Traitor, Diets, Ifs

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