Etgar Keret Quotes

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

There are gray areas in everything.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.