A. B. Yehoshua famous quotes

03-25-2025

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Expression #Desire #Boundaries
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. Yehoshua

#Boundaries #Crosses #Permission
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.
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#People #Giving #Identity
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. Yehoshua

#People #Identity #Experts
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.
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Thinking #Losing #Claims
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?
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Men #Soldier #Honor
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Writing #Complicated #Process
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.
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Dream #Stupid #Bridges
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
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Suicide #Revenge #Blood
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. Yehoshua

#Past #Judging #Goes On
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Gold #Literature #Intimate
Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Personality #Kingdoms #Ideology

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