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Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
Etgar Keret
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Etgar Keret
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 20
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I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.
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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 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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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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Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.
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It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
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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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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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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 see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.
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Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.
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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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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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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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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'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.
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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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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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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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