"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."

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Etgar Keret

#Character Quotes #Independent Quotes #Stories Quotes

“It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.”
“It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.”
“All things are lessons that God would have us learn.”
“If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!”
“All the sleepers in a night of delution beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves from the meterial world, become absorbed in the contemplation of the supreme. None can be regarded as really woken up from sleep till they have renounced all sensuous delights.”
“I suspect, too, that the modern debates represent the effort of candidates with widely-varying constituencies and special interests to please to tip the hat as quickly as possible to as many of the constituencies and interests as possible. That leaves no time for big-picture issues. Contrast this with Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, where the subject was only ever slavery, and the discussion went right to the bedrock of what a democracy is all about.”

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“I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.”
“I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.”

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