Etgar Keret Quotes

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

Etgar Keret

• Writing
• Lonely
• Fiction
• Pastime

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• What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

  

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• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  

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• Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

  

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• There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

  

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• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

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• I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.

  

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• Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

  

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• The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

  

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• I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

  

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• On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

  

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• I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

  

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• Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.

  

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• Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to fight it. But when I fought it, the creative process was interrupted, so I ended up going with it. If I'm ever accused of being derivative of my heroes then I would take that as a compliment. I like staying close to the roots of my influences.

  

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• Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

  

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• My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Writing
  • Lonely
  • Fiction