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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

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Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.

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It's a crazy experience for me to be in a Foo Fighters video.

I have to say I really was surprised on my first world tour. It was amazing to see what we've always dreamed of, right before our eyes.

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

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