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Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

Etgar Keret

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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
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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 pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.
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Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.
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I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.
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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
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I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
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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 of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
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