Etgar Keret Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. My parents said, "We have a place where we can just be ourselves and nobody says, 'Don't tell me your opinion, you damn Jew, go somewhere else.'" Then you go to this country and other Jews tell you to shut up. It's frustrating. I think that we have a bad government and that some people are fearful. They're going with the class bully. But I really truly believe - you read it in my stories - that deep inside, people have goodness.

  Etgar Keret

  Country, Believe, Thinking

• When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, "What do you want me to do? Do sports? Be rich? Be funny?" My mother would say, "Whatever we want from you, you already gave us - we wanted you to be alive, and you made it."

  Etgar Keret

  Sports, Mother, Kids

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

• I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.

  Etgar Keret

  Children, Father, Optimistic

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

• As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

  Etgar Keret

  Children, Parent, Unhappy

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

• I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, Parent, Trying

  "What Etgar Keret Learned From His Father About Storytelling And Survival". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 5, 2016.

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