Etgar Keret Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: August 20, 1967

Topics

LifeWritingStrongArmyMy Life

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

Jewel

LoveCookingYourselfEndYouFail

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

Melissa Gilbert

MotherGodRelationshipGreatFour

I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.

Matthew Yglesias

BelieveI BelieveParkingThings

I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes.

Johnny Colt

BusinessMusicMeConflictBlack

I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States.

Amanda Hearst

MoneyDeathFriendsProblemAnimals

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'

Simon Callow

KingKnowNeedDementiaAboutWrote

If I was gay, why wouldn't I admit it? It wouldn't harm me.

Simon Cowell

MeGayAdmitWhyHarm

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

LoveEarthTakeAwayOurTomb

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lloyd Alexander

LearningLookingLearnFindingMore

Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.

Clayton M. Christensen

WorkLoveGoodJobThinkMotivation

Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for young people of either gender.

Arancha Gonzalez

WomenPeopleImpossiblePolitical

Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max.

Alison Mosshart

HomeTimeDayMeYouEvery Day

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