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Them Quotes by Etgar Keret
- Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity:…
- My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
- When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
- I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than…
- There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people…
- Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.
- To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to…
- Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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