Etgar Keret Quotes
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Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
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A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.
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Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.
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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
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Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.
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I wanted to make sure they all knew that I apologized, ... that I just fell asleep. That was me, not thinking about the situation in the game.
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No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.
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If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
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Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.
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Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
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Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
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When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all.
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And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.
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Taking responsibility means you don’t blame anyone else for your difficulties. It also means that you don’t blame yourself.
