A. B. Yehoshua Quotes
“Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.”
— A. B. Yehoshua
“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
“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
— A. B. Yehoshua
“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
“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.”
— A. B. Yehoshua
“Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.”
— A. B. Yehoshua
“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
“Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.”
— A. B. Yehoshua
“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
“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
“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
“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
