Rhyming Life & Death Quotes

“The day life appeared on Earth, death appeared with it.”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“Many a wise man lacks for sense, Many a fool has a heart of gold, Happiness often ends in tears, But what’s inside can never be told.”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“Sounds of four o’clock in the morning come to him through the window: the swish of a sprinkler on the lawn, broken cries of alarm from a parked car that can no longer bear its loneliness, the low weeping of a man in the next-door apartment, on the other side of the wall, the shriek of a nightbird nearby that can perhaps already see what is hidden from you and me.”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“I read your poems with interest and found them serious, original, linguistically fresh, but first of all you must learn to curb your excess of emotion and write with more distance. As if you the person writing the poems and you the suffering young man are two different people, and as though the former observes the latter coolly, distantly, even with a measure of amusement.”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“He reflects that Chekhov has already mapped out the route by which one can approach a strange lady by paying court to her lapdog.”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“At the very least literature should not preen itself on mocking us and picking at our wounds, as modern writers in our days do ad nauseam. All they can write is satire, irony, parody (including self-parody), vicious sarcasm, all steeped in malice.”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“To write about things that exist, to try to capture a color or smell or sound in words, is a little like playing Schubert when Schubert is sitting in the hall, and perhaps sniggering in the darkness.”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“You cannot write without looking behind you; like Lot’s wife. And in doing so you turn yourself and them into blocks of salt.”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“Moreover, what purpose, if any, is served by your stories? Whom do they benefit?”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“But why write about things that exist even without you? Why describe in words things that are not words?”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“He wrote more or less the same way as he dreamed or masturbated: a mixture of compulsion, enthusiasm, despair, disgust, and wretchedness. And in those days he also had an insatiable curiosity to try to understand why people hurt each other, and themselves, without meaning to at all.”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“Really,” “really and truly,” those code words which barely conceal a lie.)”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“He thoroughly abhorred those bohemians who aped the ways of Paris and Hollywood, and he had nothing but disgust for all those cynical, uprooted intellectuals who knew only how to pour scorn and sarcasm on everything, together with their scribbles about modern art, which amounted to no more than the emperor’s new clothes.”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“men can’t help themselves, that’s just the way they are made, but women in her view are actually not much better, and that’s why love is something that one way or another always turns out badly.”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death: A Novel

“Наистина" - думата, през която толкова ясно прозира лъжата.”
― Amos Oz, Rhyming Life & Death