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If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.

Etgar Keret

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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
Actor
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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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