"If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar."

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Source : Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Amos Oz

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“To take estrogen or not to take estrogen: That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to abstain and suffer The sweat and puddles of outrageous flashes Or to take arms against a sea of mood swings, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; at first the studies say 'twill end The heart attacks and thousand bouts of bloat That flesh is heir to, 'tis a true confusion - For then they say 'twill cause us all to die Perchance from breast cancer; ay, there's the rub; For who can dream or even sleep while worrying about What doctors might be saying come next week?”
“Because I am all too human, I don't always do the right thing, so how can I expect others to perform perfectly on the issues that are my top priority? I don't mean that we shouldn't try to do our best, but judgment and recrimination are such heavy weights. I find that accepting that we are all fallible lightens my load.”
“It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.”
“I have friends, but my brother is really the one person who I can confide in and talk to about anything.”

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“Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.”
“What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.”
“I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.”
“We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.”

Source : "How Wars End: Eye-witness Accounts of the Fall of Berlin" by Vladimir Sevruk, (p. 27), 1974.

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