Etgar Keret Quotes
I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.
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When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
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It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.
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Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
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Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.
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Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
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The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.
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You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.
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I'm always so excited about what I do that I try to get everyone to feel that way.
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We fell in love with wrestling, and then we really wanted to break barriers, and we now get to do that because that's evolved beyond the ring.
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I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
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All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.
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The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.
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I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?
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If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.
