4 Quotes & Sayings By Dalia Sofer

Dalia Sofer has been a successful writer for over twenty years. Her first novel, City of Stone , was published by Random House in 1996 and won the National Jewish Book Award. Her second novel, My Father's Daughter , followed in 1998. She has been a regular contributor to the Jerusalem Report and has also written for The Jerusalem Post Read more

She was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post from 2000 to 2007 and is a member of the Association of Writers and Journalists in Israel.

And since when is stealing people's possessions the call of...
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And since when is stealing people's possessions the call of God? you are all hypocrites who have suddenly come into power, and you don't know how to handle it Dalia Sofer
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Since when are you so 'faithful'? just a couple of years ago you would show up in your tight jeans and borrow our car to pick up one of your five girlfriends. You think that beard makes you a man of God? Dalia Sofer
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New York loves expanse. It grows upward and spreads its tentacles outward, the island spilling into adjoining lands through its many bridges and tunnels. A person given to idleness, as Parvis has come to think of himself, must move about for the sake of moving, if only to fit into the general scheme of things - an electron obeying the current. Tantamount to movement, he has come to realize, is self-reliance, a fact reflected in the language: "Take care, " a friend may say to another as the two part. In his old life the same two friends would have said to one another, khodahfez - "may God protect you. Dalia Sofer