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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Finding the tool is often half the battle.
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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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A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
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Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month.
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Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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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.
