"If you want to learn how to be……" — Etgar Keret
"If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first."
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Etgar Keret
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47 Quotes by Etgar Keret
Etgar Keret has 47 quotes on this site.
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When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you…
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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.…
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I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that…
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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…
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It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in…
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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…
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Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say…
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