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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But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
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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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In the second half we came out and played well offensively and defensively.
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Why these eyes without reading, but always ready to read? This mad will to be healed by the word when all sentences are only hiccups, shivers, sorry tics of the void?
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.
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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.
