"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."

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Etgar Keret

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“I like to be confident, absolutely not cocky, and I like to have that healthy fear of my opponents. It keeps me on my toes.”
“Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.”

Source : Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious twentieth century scientific theory has become a reality for evolutionary biologists.”

Source : Michael Denton (2002). “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis”, Adler & Adler Pub
“All life is a struggle in the dark.”
“Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.”
“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.”

Source : Haruki Murakami (2011). “Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World”, p.183, Random House
“The Cat on your hearthstone to this day presages, By solemnly sneezing, the coming of rain!”
“Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.”

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