Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths. A. B. Yehoshua More Quotes by A. B. Yehoshua More Quotes From A. B. Yehoshua Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries. A. B. Yehoshua boundariesexpressiondesire 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 permissionboundariescrosses The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. A. B. Yehoshua processcomplicatedwriting 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 bridgesstupiddream 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 revengesuicideblood 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 judgingtruthpast Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. A. B. Yehoshua literaturegoldintimate-relationships 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 claimslosingthinking 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 soldierhonormen 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 identityexpertspeople 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 identitygivingpeople This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust. A. B. Yehoshua whyi-amholocausthatred Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world. A. B. Yehoshua belongonlyjerusalemworld I think about the Arabs not as enemies but as cousins. Even when we are in a fierce conflict with them, they are more of a kind of family - with all the problems of a family. We have to live with them. A. B. Yehoshua problemsconflictfiercefamily Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history. A. B. Yehoshua youmanidentityhistory I am a serious reader, and I read slowly. A. B. Yehoshua slowlyreadi-amserious I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction. A. B. Yehoshua respectreadingsciencebook The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling. A. B. Yehoshua findscience-fictionsciencefiction I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories. A. B. Yehoshua shortonlyfirstage Israelis are the total Jews. A. B. Yehoshua israelisjewstotal
