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In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.

Etgar Keret

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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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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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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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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
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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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If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.
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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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It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.
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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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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 think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.
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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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When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
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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 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 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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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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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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Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.
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