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When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
Etgar Keret
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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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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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Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover things about her in that process which you have never had discovered on other circumstances.
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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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Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.
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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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If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.
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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 one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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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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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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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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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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There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal.
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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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This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
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What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.
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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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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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