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born 1972 Israel

Dorit Rabinyan (Hebrew: דורית רביניאן; born September 25, 1972) is an Israeli writer and screenwriter.

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I shall always write about immigrants, about mobility; about the gap between what you wish for, and what you get.

Close Encounters with Twenty Israeli Writers (2003)

There is nothing more Arabic than honor and shame.

Literature and War: Conversations with Israeli and Palestinian Writers (2002)

The lighthouse of marriage is only one of a host of glimmering lights.

Close Encounters with Twenty Israeli Writers (2003)

Through all those years Marcelle had confused Yoel with the imaginary heroes that her sad eyes cut out of the romances she read... and she realized that all through the past years she had merely travelled over the road map of the land of love, never in the land itself.

Our Weddings (1999)

Between them she felt small, even smaller than herself. (p13)

Strand of a Thousand Pearls (1999)

Quiet hours and long talks, awash in each other... (ch 14)

All the Rivers (2014)

The work is tiring, drudgery, a labour of years, and when the reader receives the book, he has to feel the trickery, the magic. He must not see the heart that suffers, the grubby hands.

Close Encounters with Twenty Israeli Writers (2003)

The hoarseness of my voice echoes in my ears as if from another era: "I have to leave...." (chapter 7)

All the Rivers (2014)

Living in Israel means that you have the choice. You can live a totally European lifestyle, or you can live a life that is oriented toward the Arab world. Or the third world, if you like.

Literature and War: Conversations with Israeli and Palestinian Writers (2002)

Freedom of speech in Israel is so fragile, and this book was attacked as a symbol, for its vulnerability. (2019)

By just acknowledging a dual perspective to everything, along with two justifications, you are considered a non-patriot in today’s Israel. (2017)

The silence was very intense, like the hush that used to trouble her mind when she was the first to wake up on Saturday mornings. (p97)

Strand of a Thousand Pearls (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dorit Rabinyan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.