Etgar Keret Quotes
His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.

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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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The thing for me is to always tell the truth. Not to preach, but to tell the truth.
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I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.
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I don't think there's anywhere to draw the line sexually.
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I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.
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Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?
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Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.
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His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.