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Etgar Keret has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write,…
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Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different…
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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies…
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My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they…
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If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece…
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I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what…
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I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one…
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In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that…
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It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective…
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Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one…
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Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where…
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Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years…
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my…
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You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we…
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before…
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Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.
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