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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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To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who…
— William Bell
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
— Penelope Lively
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I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most…
— Ken Follett
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When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a…
— Etgar Keret
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We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from…
— Stephen Hawking
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King…
— Leif Enger
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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
— John Selden
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A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.
— Richard Dawkins
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My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James…
— Jake Epstein
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I liked The DaVinci Code. It just had the concept. The core element of the concept of the book deals with whether…
— Busta Rhymes
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