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1. "For three months,a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss." ~ Etgar Keret

3. "According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom." ~ Etgar Keret

4. "I think she cried at my funeral. It's not that I'm conceited or anything, but I'm pretty sure. Sometimes I can actually picture her talking about me to some guy she feels close to. Talking about me dying. About how they lowered me into the grave, kind of shrivelled up and pitiful, like an old chocolate bar. About how we never really got a chance. And afterwards the guy fucks her, a fuck that's all about making her feel better." ~ Etgar Keret

5. "Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they're no good." ~ Etgar Keret

6. "And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she'd be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she'd boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she'd let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she'd wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed." ~ Etgar Keret

7. "He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That's right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that's never happened before." ~ Etgar Keret

8. "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." ~ Etgar Keret

9. "Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time." ~ Etgar Keret

10. "Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak." ~ Etgar Keret

11. "Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live." ~ Etgar Keret

12. "The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I'll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that's not accurate. Everything's there so I won't be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth." ~ Etgar Keret

13. "...but I felt then the same way Nicky did, that I was getting myself more life. Not necessarily a better life, not a life more promising than the one I already had. But because I thought this life was in addition to and not instead of, I devoured it without a second's hesitation." ~ Etgar Keret

14. "Dice que no la amo de verdad. Que digo que la quiero, que creo que la quiero, pero que no. He oído a más de uno decir que no quiere a alguien, ¿pero decidir por otro si ese otro lo ama o no? Con eso todavía no me había encontrado nunca." ~ Etgar Keret

15. "Ehud was tall and strong and was always quiet. Lots of people thought that Ehud was quiet because he was stupid. That wasn't true. He may not have been the smartest kid on the block, but he was no moron either." ~ Etgar Keret

16. "The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids." ~ Etgar Keret

17. "Cennetin hayatlarini iyilik yapmaya adamislarin yeri oldugunu sanirdim, ama öyle degilmis. Tanri böyle bir karar vermeyecek kadar merhametli ve müsfik. Cennet dünyada gerçekten mutlu olamayanlarin yeri" ~ Etgar Keret

18. "Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex." ~ Etgar Keret

19. "My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way." ~ Etgar Keret

20. "Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world." ~ Etgar Keret

21. "I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it." ~ Etgar Keret

22. "I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic." ~ Etgar Keret

23. "In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets." ~ Etgar Keret

24. "In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory." ~ Etgar Keret

25. "The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself." ~ Etgar Keret

26. "When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect." ~ Etgar Keret

27. "Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?" ~ Etgar Keret

28. "Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump." ~ Etgar Keret

29. "Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors." ~ Etgar Keret

30. "Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion." ~ Etgar Keret

31. "I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations." ~ Etgar Keret

32. "I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures." ~ Etgar Keret

33. "I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing." ~ Etgar Keret

34. "I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun." ~ Etgar Keret

35. "I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation." ~ Etgar Keret

36. "In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying." ~ Etgar Keret

37. "It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul." ~ Etgar Keret

38. "There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, "You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass." ~ Etgar Keret

39. "It's amazing how people can sound like retards when they're talking to their girlfriend, especially if they really love her a lot. Because when you're just fucking someone you make a point of keeping your cool, but when you're really in love - it can sound pretty repulsive." ~ Etgar Keret

40. "He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door." ~ Etgar Keret

41. "Por el quincuagésimo cumpleaños de mi padre me puse a pensar por un momento en la vida. En como nos dejamos mear en la sopa. Como les dejamos pasar absolutamente todo a los más grandísimos mierdas, porque nada "vale la pena ni el esfuerzo"." ~ Etgar Keret

42. "To vanquish the emptiness, I have strategems. I listen to music for countless hours. The music fills not only me, but the space around me. Music, as I have learned, is an elixir that seeps into all your limbs." ~ Etgar Keret

43. "He actually had a relationship once with someone who'd committed suicide. Not emotional, physical. It happened in the army. He was serving in general-staff headquarters at the time, and he'd been brought up on charges of being seen with his boots unpolished. And just when he was walking past the tall staff headquarters building, someone dropped to the ground next to him, splattered. A girl-soldier, they said, with a broken heart, a corporal, Liat Something. Later he remembered hearing a kind of scream above him as she was falling. But he hadn't looked up. The sound didn't even register.He reached the hearing all covered in her blood. They let him off. Liat Atlas. That was her name. They even called on him later, to testify at the military police investigation. It couldn't go on this way, that much he knew. Maybe he needed therapy." ~ Etgar Keret

44. "Kids who get Bart Simpson dolls too easily grow up to be punks who steal from candy stores, because they're used to getting whatever they want the easy way." ~ Etgar Keret

45. "Diger serserilerden pek farki yoktu Kobi'nin. Insanin aslinda çirkin mi yoksa aptal mi olduguna karar veremedigi tiplerden" ~ Etgar Keret

46. "Iki tür insan vardir, duvar yaninda uyuyanlar ve onlari yataktan asagi iten birinin yaninda uyuyanlar." ~ Etgar Keret

47. "My wife says I'd get philosophical with a lamp post if I thought the thing had ears." ~ Etgar Keret

48. "Until he turned twelve, Nimrod was a shitty person. The kind of whiner that, if he wasn't your best friend, you'd have kicked his ass a long time ago. And then one day, just before his bar mitzvah, they put insoles in his shoes, and suddenly the guy was a whole new human being." ~ Etgar Keret

49. "Qué es el cáncer?", pensó. "Pues un atentado terrorista cometido por Dios. Qué hace Dios si no cometer atentados como protesta ante...algo, algo tan elevado y trascendente que ni siquiera alcanzamos a captarlo?" ~ Etgar Keret

50. "To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body." ~ Etgar Keret

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