"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?"

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Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com

Etgar Keret

#Mean Quotes #Issues Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Some people CHASE happiness. And some people CHOOSE happiness...”
“Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.”
“To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.”
“Street politics is what happens in our everyday life, living in the bando. It's the environment around us and what we doing in the streets. We [Migos] talking about how many snakes there are in the grass and talking about how people can hurt you, and talking about how that can help you gain knowledge.”
“The day was dark as a lawyer's soul.”

Source : "Cold Granite". Book by Stuart MacBride, 2005.
“I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.”
“Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.”

Source : Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (1995). “The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969”, p.86, University of Chicago Press
“There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.”

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