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Etgar Keret

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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.
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You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.
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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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I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation writing is the place where we can try to be human.
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According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.
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I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.
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I don't like the expression writer's block because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.
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I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.
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If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.
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As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.
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It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
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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 separate and independent creatures.
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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
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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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When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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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 that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal.
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When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
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In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.
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