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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.
Etgar Keret
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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.
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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 who push them off the bed.
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All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.
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Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
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It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.
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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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If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.
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What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.
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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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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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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
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Etgar means challenge. And my family name is Keret, which means urban. So my name is urban challenge. My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.
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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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Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
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Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.
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Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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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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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: what does it mean to be an American Jew?
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