A Quote by Amos Oz

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Carry Carrying Course Culture Culture And Religion Dead Even Forth Inside Language Legacy Our Ourselves Parents Religion Them Themselves

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Amos Oz
Israeli - Novelist
Born: May 4, 1939

Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion. In some cases, family stories told by grandparents to little grandchildren. When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds or thousands of years earlier in time. Everybody comes from somewhere.

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