Etgar Keret Quotes
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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We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
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I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.
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Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.
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You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn’t go on to say anything about inheriting the earth.
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I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.
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I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.
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There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.
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If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If a friendship makes me love Hugh more, then I can trust that friendship. If it thrusts itself between us, then it should be cut out, and quickly.
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... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.
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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.