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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

Topics: Delightful Every Exception Experienced Imagine More Pleasure Reading Single Small Take Time You Your I Can

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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

Topics: Conflict First First Time Israeli Palestinian Palestinian People People Seen Time Two Years Ahead 100 Years

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I recommend the art of slow reading.

~Amos Oz

Topics: Art Reading Recommend Slow

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

~Amos Oz

Topics: Apartment Born Bred Tiny I Was Born

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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.

~Amos Oz

Topics: About Allegory Chamber Immediate Israelis More Much Music Palestinians Piece Political Same Sea Something Wrote

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In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

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Topics: Arafat Birds Feather Many Regard Sharon Ways

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Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

~Amos Oz

Topics: Almost Coastal Conflicts Eight Far Fiery Israel Israeli Itself Jerusalem Jews Live Occupied Out Outside Outside World Plain Religious Ten Territories Unknown Where World

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On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

~Amos Oz

Topics: Considered More Parents Scale Something Values Western

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One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

~Amos Oz

Topics: Below Beyond Conflict Deep Deep Down Down Fact Introduce One Of The Things Our Same Sea Secrets Things Wanted

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

~Amos Oz

Topics: Actual Between Central Gap Labor New Party

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Writer

Born: May 4th, 1939

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