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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.

Etgar Keret

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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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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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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 tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.
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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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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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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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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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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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In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.
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There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.
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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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I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.
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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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Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
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You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.
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When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
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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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Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.
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