Като малък мечтаех да стана книга.
Много често дори и най-чувствителните арабски писатели не успяват да ни видят такива, каквито сме всъщност - шепа полуистерични бегълци и оцелели, преследвани от ужасни кошмари, травматизирани не само...
While it was true that books could change with the years just as much as people could, the difference was that whereas people would always drop you when they could no longer get any advantage or pleas...
The manikins, I mean the little men who held the shutters open during the day, those little metal figures: when you wanted to close the shutters you swivelled them round so that all night long they hu...
Nasty thoughts are more like worms in the cauliflower!
Love is a kind of infection, possessing then releasing you.
I wasn't jealous and I wasn't resentful. Maybe it's the people who are the least loved, provided they're not envious or bitter, who find the most love in themselves to give to others. Don't you think?
Иска ми се просто да можех да ви предпиша: Четете и ще се излекувате от фанатизма.
В основата на фанатизма лежи желанието да променим другите. Често срещаният стремеж да поправим ближния, да „облагородим съпруга или съпругата, да моделираме детето или да променим брат си, вместо да...
Assemble and disperse, everything changes and is transformed, but no-o-othing can ever change from being to not-being. Not even the tiniest hair growing on the tail of some virus. The concept of infin...
The Jews here are actually a single big refugee camp, and so are the Arabs. And now the Arabs live day by day with the disaster of their defeat, and the Jews live night by night with the dread of thei...
Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs, grills, dominion, torture chambers, and gallows. All these faiths, in...
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.
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 inc...
He was fond of the word decidedly, as well as nevertheless, indeed, in a certain sense, unmistakably, promptly, on the other hand, and utter disgrace).
Просто казвам, че семето на фанатизма никне там, където има безкомпромисна и непоклатима убеденост в собствената правота.
Да, признавам си, че като дете и аз бях малък фанатик с промит мозък. Изпълнен с праведен гняв, краен, глух и сляп за всеки глас, който се отличаваше от общия ционистки хор. Бях дете, което хвърля кам...
There are places in the world where real life is still happening, far away from here, in a pre-Hitler Europe, where hundreds of lights are lit every evening, ladies and gentlemen gather to drink coffe...
Only a woman has the power to choose whether or not to bestow.
Books standing up and other books lying down on top of them; plump, resplendent foreign books stretching themselves comfortably, and other wretched books that peered at you from cramped and crowded co...