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> [I knew very well that I could not stay. Everything collapsed. Everything in my life just collapsed, and it started with the kidnapping of three teenaged settlers and then judging the life - the young Palestinian from Jerusalem. That was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/i-knew-very-well-that-i-could-not-stay-everything-collapsed/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

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## More by Sayed Kashua

> [Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this feeling that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/probably-also-due-to-the-political-situation-getting-just-worse-and/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

> [I'm not sure that I recovered, but I also know that I cannot afford going back yet. I see how much the kids are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/i-m-not-sure-that-i-recovered-but-i-also-know-that-i-cannot-afford/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

> [Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/here-i-am-a-palestinian-arab-who-only-knows-how-to-write-in-hebrew/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

> [I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/i-always-see-my-wife-as-the-clever-one-as-the-wise-one-in-the-family/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

> [I knew very well that I could not stay. Everything collapsed. Everything in my life just collapsed, and it started with the kidnapping of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/i-knew-very-well-that-i-could-not-stay-everything-collapsed/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

> [“Nor did she believe in identity, certainly not the local nationalistic version of it. She said that man was only smart if he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/nor-did-she-believe-in-identity-certainly-not-the-local-nationalistic/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

> [I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/i-very-much-hope-that-when-my-wife-reads-my-writings-so-she-reads-it/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

> [I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/i-tell-you-a-joke-to-have-you-listen-to-me-and-then-maybe-i-will-tell/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

> [ I used to give her \[my wife\] to read the column every week before I sent it to the editors. And sometimes she was… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/i-used-to-give-her-my-wife-to-read-the-column-every-week-before-i/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

> [I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/i-couldn-t-lie-anymore-to-my-kids-telling-them-that-they-are-equal/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

> [I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/i-use-a-lot-of-humor-and-i-follow-the-saying-that-if-you-want-to-tell/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

> [I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayed-kashua/i-hope-that-one-day-i-will-gain-power-somehow-and-somehow-convince/)

[Sayed Kashua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sayed-kashua/)

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