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"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."
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"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."
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"There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds."
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"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."
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"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs."
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"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."
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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
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"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"
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"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."
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"I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could."
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"But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country."
Balance
"I recommend the art of slow reading."
Art
"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."
Ignorance
"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."
Diplomacy
"I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world."
Family
"I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips."
Love
"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."
Time
"A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops."
People
"The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic."
Labor
"Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right."
Tragedy
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