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Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.
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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The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.
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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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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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I think when you write, you should call it a writing spree. I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.
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I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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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 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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I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
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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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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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What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.
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I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.
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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 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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As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.
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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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In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story. Turning the hierarchy around and putting passion on top and not craft, because when you just focus on craft, you can write something that is very sterile.
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