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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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I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
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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 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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Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.
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Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just means that you're hungry for life. There are so many things you want to do.
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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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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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As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.
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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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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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Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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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.
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You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.
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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 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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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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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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People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.
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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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