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Quotes by Israeli Authors
"Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital."
"In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever."
"I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity."
"As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets."
"Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition."
"I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts."
"I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently."
"We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is."
"Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor."
"The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated."
"He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor."
"It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective."
"I don't think-""Clearly. Why start now?"
"I was done with hesitation. It wasn't just that we'd run out of options, or that so much was riding on the firebird's power. I'd simply grown ruthless enough or selfish enough to take another creature's life. But I missed the girl who had shown the stag mercy, who had been strong enough to turn away from the lure of power, who had believed in something more. Another casualty of this war."
"Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults."
"Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that."
"Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security."
"I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title."
"Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother."
"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."
"Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing."
"You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall."
"A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace."
"For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them."
"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."
"Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance."
"Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them."
"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."
"Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly."
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