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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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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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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Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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In the second half we upped the tempo, scored four and could have got more.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period).
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No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.
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I pack every minute I can with something to do.
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So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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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.
