Etgar Keret Quotes
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
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If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.
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I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.
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When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.
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Growing up, I was always chubby. My girlfriends were always running around in two-pieces, and I never felt comfortable to do that.
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Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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I don't think you can be a comic book fan and not hate change.
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My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.
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When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
