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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
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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. - Amos Oz
#Live
#Love
#Own
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Trump is many things. He is pampered. He is an immature man. He is a teenager craving unconditional, endless love from everybody. - Amos Oz
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A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops. - Amos Oz
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#Hearts
#Minds
#People
The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death. - Amos Oz
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#Opposite
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment. - Amos Oz
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#Bred
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I've been called a traitor a few times in my life by some of my countrymen. - Amos Oz
#Countrymen
#Few
#Life
#My Life
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Literature is always about bygone times. It's always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity. - Amos Oz
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#Curiosity
#Life
#Literature
#Look
#Time
There is a difference between myself and some of the peace people in Europe: whereas they think that the ultimate evil in the world is war, I think the ultimate evil in the world is aggression, and aggression sometimes must be repelled by force. - Amos Oz
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#Myself
#Peace
#War
#World
But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country. - Amos Oz
#Balance
#Coalition
#Country
#Position
On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. - Amos Oz
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#Parents
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#Something
#Values
Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking. - Amos Oz
#Change
#Family
#Good
#Home
#Thinking
Throughout my childhood, a heavy cloud of pain and disappointment and insecurity hovered over my home, my little street, my neighborhood, Jewish Jerusalem, Jewish Israel. - Amos Oz
#Childhood
#Disappointment
#Home
#Pain
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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#Imagine
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#Pleasure
#Time
Jesus was born a Jew, and he died a Jew. It never occurred to him to establish a new religion. He never crossed himself: he had no reason to. He never set one foot in a church. He went to synagogue. - Amos Oz
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#Church
#New
#Reason
#Religion
I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence. - Amos Oz
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#Hatred
#In The End
#Think
#Violence
I listen to my political rivals sometimes with fear and trembling, sometimes with awe, sometimes with near panic, but always with a curiosity of nuances, curiosity for the language, curiosity for the story behind the 'impossible' position. - Amos Oz
#Curiosity
#Fear
#Impossible
#Political
Happiness as a human condition is something I never believed in. I think there are moments of happiness. I don't think there is a lasting happiness. I think this is unthinkable. - Amos Oz
#Happiness
#Human Condition
#Human
#Never
Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process that would end up in an - unhappy - Israeli-Egyptian peace. We have seen peace with Egypt. We have seen peace with Jordan. We have seen the handshake between Rabin and Arafat - things are possible. - Amos Oz
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#Egypt
#Nobody
#Peace
#Process
#Week
Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right. - Amos Oz
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#Definition
#Right
#Tragedy
#Well
I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls - I had no chance in either - I found my comfort in Jesus. - Amos Oz
#Age
#Art
#Chance
#Comfort
#Music
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. - Amos Oz
#Claim
#Conflict
#Land
#Powerful
#Respect
#Tragedy
Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims. - Amos Oz
#Children
#Conflict
#Look
#Past
#See
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. - Amos Oz
#Family
#Find
#Most
#Mysterious
#World
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