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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.
Etgar Keret
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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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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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Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.
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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 think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.
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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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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.
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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.
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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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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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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
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I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.
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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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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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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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It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.
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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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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.
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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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