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Quotes by Israeli Authors

"When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again."
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Avi Arad
"When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again."
Avi Arad, Israeli Businessman
Despair,
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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."
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Keren Ann
"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."
Keren Ann, Israeli Musician
Home, Bed, Paris
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"Leave my image alone... I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything."
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Ezer Weizman
"Leave my image alone... I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything."
"When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words."
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Keren Ann
"When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words."
"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."
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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."
"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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A. B. Yehoshua
"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."
"Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk."
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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk."
Shmuel Y. Agnon, Israeli Writer
Man, Name
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"The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation."
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Aharon Appelfeld
"The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation."
"Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe."
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A. B. Yehoshua
"Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe."
"I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget."
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Chaim Herzog
"I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget."
"I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life."
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Ofra Haza
"I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life."
"I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be."
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Ofra Haza
"I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be."
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