Amos Oz
Amos Oz
Amos Ozis an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He is regarded as Israel's most famous living author...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth4 May 1939
CountryIsrael
cutting desire longing
Never cut loose from your longings.
cutting longing loses
Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?
traitor ifs diets
If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.
wall world graffiti
Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: Yids, get out of Palestine.
imagination people political
The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.
israel ideas vocabulary
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.
hate people long
When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.
sea political pieces
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.
sea secret facts
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.
parent scales western
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.