“To bend down for money is OK, but to bow is not.”
Introduction to Money, Power, and Honor, In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower (1989).
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Famous Avner Strauss Quotes
“The blind man sits in the dark, but for guests he turns on the light.”
12 Years Before Now, In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower (1991).
Avner Strauss Quotes about flowers
“Rain was the nemesis of the snow, and the snow for the flowers”
Context: Rain was the nemesis of the snow, and the snow for the flowers. I Answer as if Someone Really Meant to Ask, Birds of the Mind and Chameleons of the Heart (1978).
Avner Strauss Quotes
The Hollow Flute, from "Voices Within The Ark" Howard Schwartz, Jewish Poets, [ISBN 978-0380761098].
“Inside every widow there's a spider that weaves it's webs in the corners of her heart.”
"Voices Within the Ark", ibid.
“Once, my wife would make me coffee. These days, she hardly puts the kettle on.”
Distance and other Measures (1994).
“If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time.”
If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
