A. B. Yehoshua quotes
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“Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.”
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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. YehoshuaSource : Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”
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“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”
-- A. B. YehoshuaSource : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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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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“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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“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
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“One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.”
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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 with theirs”
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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, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.”
-- A. B. YehoshuaSource : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.
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“Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.”
-- A. B. YehoshuaSource : "Boundaries and Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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“Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.”
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