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A. B. Yehoshua

" Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries. "

Desire , Expression , Boundaries

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" Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries. "

Desire , Expression , 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. "

Boundaries , Crosses , Permission

" The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. "

Process , Writing

" 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. "

Dream , Bridges , Stupid

" 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. "

Truth , Past , Judging

" Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. "

Gold , Literature

" 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? "

Honor , Men

" Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths. "

Personality , Ideology , Kingdoms

" 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. "

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. "

People , Experts , Identity

" 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 "

Blood , Suicide , Revenge

" 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. "

Thinking , Losing