Etgar Keret Quotes
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
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If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.
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Careful, love. Prices aren't the only things I can cut in half!
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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
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Finding the tool is often half the battle.
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.
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I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.
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I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.
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Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
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No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction
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Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.
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Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.
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The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically.
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We know how we were born, but know not how we will die.
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When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
