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"No answers come, but she feels sadder and sadder, because only a few moments ago, when she was dozing, she understood it all, completely, and now that she is awake she has forgotten what it was she understood."

Oz, Amos. Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel (p. 86). Mariner Books. Kindle Edition.

"But why write about things that exist even without you? Why describe in words things that are not words?"

Oz, Amos. Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel (p. 76). Mariner Books. Kindle Edition.

"And you? What, may we ask, are you looking for here at this time of night? Are you entirely sane?"

Oz, Amos. Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel (p. 57). Mariner Books. Kindle Edition.

"Isn’t he quite right though to scoff? the Author says to himself, as, with his warm, gushing words, he continues to captivate his audience, especially the women."

Oz, Amos. Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel (p. 28). Mariner Books. Kindle Edition.

"Apropos of which it is not inappropriate to quote the well-known lines of the veteran poet Tsefania Beit-Halachmi, from his book Rhyming Life and Death, which goes something like this: "You’ll always find them side by side: never a groom without a bride.'"

Oz, Amos. Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel (p. 16). Mariner Books. Kindle Edition.

"Won’t you at least give us a few hints this evening? And would you please tell us, briefly and in your own words, what exactly you were trying to say in your last book?"

Oz, Amos. Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel (p. 5). Mariner Books. Kindle Edition.