It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs...

Draft

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

Quote of the Day

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

- Celine Dion

Other quotes by Amos Oz

Birds

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

- Amos Oz

Compromise Injustice End Sense

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

- Amos Oz

Time

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

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

- Amos Oz

Tragedy Right

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

- Amos Oz

Conflict Tragedy

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

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I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

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I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

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A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

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The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.

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In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

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