Amos Oz citáty
Amos Oz
Datum narození: 4. květen 1939
Datum úmrtí: 28. prosinec 2018
Amos Oz byl izraelský spisovatel, esejista, novinář a profesor literatury na Ben Gurionově univerzitě v Beer Ševě.
Od roku 1967 byl předním zastáncem dvoustátního řešení izraelsko-palestinského konfliktu. Jeho knihy byly vydány ve zhruba 41 jazycích, včetně arabštiny, ve 35 státech světa. Je nositelem řady ocenění a vyznamenání, včetně Řádu čestné legie, Ceny knížete asturského, či Izraelské ceny.
V roce 2005 byl v internetové soutěži 200 největších Izraelců deníku Ynet zvolen 41. největším Izraelcem všech dob. Wikipedia
Citáty Amos Oz
„Žádný fanatik nemá smysl pro humor. A nikdo, kdo má smysl pro humor, se nemůže stát fanatikem.“
— Amos Oz
Zdroj: Amos Oz na pwf.cz http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/texty/rozhovory/amos-oz-je-lehci-milovat-lidstvo-nez-vlastniho-souseda_2666.html
„Oba národy mají nárok na své území, na svůj stát. Neměli bychom se snažit skončit jako Shakespearova dramata, kdy po závěrečném vítězství bude scéna pokryta krví.“
— Amos Oz
o Palestincích a Izraelcích
Zdroj: [Amos Oz: S touto válkou nesouhlasím!, novinky.cz, 2003-04-07, 2011-03-02, http://www.novinky.cz/kultura/5580-amos-oz-s-touto-valkou-nesouhlasim.html]
„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.“
— Amos Oz, kniha A Tale of Love and Darkness
Zdroj: A Tale of Love and Darkness
„Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster.“
— Amos Oz, kniha A Tale of Love and Darkness
Zdroj: A Tale of Love and Darkness
„When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.“
— Amos Oz, kniha A Tale of Love and Darkness
Zdroj: A Tale of Love and Darkness
„Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: 'Yids, go back to Palestine,' so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge [sic] shouts at us: 'Yids, get out of Palestine.“
— Amos Oz, kniha A Tale of Love and Darkness
A Tale of Love and Darkness (2003).
Quoted on U.S. radio program " Fresh Air http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4195061" (December 1, 2004).
„There are lots of women who are attracted to tyrannical men. Like moths to a flame. And there are some women who do not need a hero or even a stormy lover but a friend. Just remember that when you grow up. Steer clear of the tryant lovers, and try to locate the ones who are looking for a man as a friend, not because they are feeling empty themselves but because they enjoy making you full too. And remember that friendship between a woman and a man is something much more precious and rare than love: love is actually something quite gross and even clumsy compared to friendship. Friendship includes a measure of sensitivity, attentiveness, generosity, and a finely tuned sense of moderation.“
— Amos Oz, kniha A Tale of Love and Darkness
Zdroj: A Tale of Love and Darkness
„The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.“
— Amos Oz
"The Great Disruption", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 17 Jun 1999, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545kh
