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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.
Etgar Keret
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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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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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Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
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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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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
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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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As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.
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Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.
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