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12 A. B. Yehoshua Quotes & Sayings
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12 A. B. Yehoshua Quotes & Sayings
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Born. December 19, 1936 |
Novelist
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Essayist
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Playwright
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And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
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One
Major
Keep
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Traveling
Desire
Cross
Boundaries
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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Intimate
Gold
Explore
Describe
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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Most
Difficult
Part
Process
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
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Truth
Certain
Moment
Judge
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing wit
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Weapon
Suicide
Revenge
Victim
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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Think
Claim
Part
Other
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And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
A. B. Yehoshua
Major
Question
Keep
Permission
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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.
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Respect
Expect
Novel
Fiction
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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Man
You
Random
Honor
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We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.
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Living
Through
Yourself
Better
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In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.
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A. B. Yehoshua Quotes & Sayings