Top 18 Yehoshua Quotes
#1. People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.
L.M. Montgomery
#2. Precision in matters of Christian doctrine is a hallmark of confessional Lutheranism, all for the sake of the Gospel.
C.F.W. Walther
#3. Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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#4. The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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#5. What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.
Christopher Shays
#6. 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
#7. 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.
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#8. God, I just love 'A Journey to the End of the Millennium,' by A. B. Yehoshua. My favorite novel by an American Jew is probably 'Humboldt's Gift.'
Michael Chabon
#9. 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, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
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#10. 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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#12. 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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#13. Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.
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#14. 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
#15. Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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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#18. So, in the end, who you were doesn't seem to matter. It's who you are that does. And this change was for the best of us.
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