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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.

Etgar Keret

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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.
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Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.
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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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Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
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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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If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.
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If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels wrong, don’t waste so much as a single second on it. It may be fine for someone else, but not for you.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.
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The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.
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When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost 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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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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I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.
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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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Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.
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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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I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.
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Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.
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