Make peace not love

Posted by Patrik Edvardsson | Posted in , , , , | Posted on 1:22 PM

Reading Amos Oz 'How to cure a fanatic' in bed.
Page 44, 'make peace not love'.
He says that love is too rare to create peace, that there is not enough of it for everyone. Love is not the opposite of war, neither is brotherhood, or generosity. No, the opposite of war is peace. He then goes on to quote Robert Frost 'good fences make good neighbors' and I am reminded of how much I love the unsentimental clarity and position that Amos Oz takes in his writing.

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