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"I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father's paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it into my father's hand. 'What's this?' he asked, raising a brow. 'You'll need it to sign my death certificate, ' I said, pain vibrating my veins against my muscles and bones. 'Are we done now? (Eric)"

"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."
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"While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice."


"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."


"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."


"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."


"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."


"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."


"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
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