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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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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 used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.
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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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Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover things about her in that process which you have never had discovered on other circumstances.
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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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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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I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
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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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It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.
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I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.
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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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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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When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, What do you want me to do? Do sports? Be rich? Be funny? My mother would say, Whatever we want from you, you already gave us - we wanted you to be alive, and you made it.
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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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I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.
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Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.
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You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.
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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
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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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