The Nimrod Flipout Quotes

“It's amazing how people can sound like retards when they're talking to their girlfriend, especially if they really love her a lot. Because when you're just fucking someone you make a point of keeping your cool, but when you're really in love - it can sound pretty repulsive.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“A typical thought by way of example: at night, when we say we’re going to sleep, and we get into bed and shut our eyes, we’re not really asleep. We’re just pretending. We shut our eyes and breathe rhythmically, pretending to be asleep, until the deceit grows slowly real. And maybe that’s how it is with death.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“...but I felt then the same way Nicky did, that I was getting myself more life. Not necessarily a better life, not a life more promising than the one I already had. But because I thought this life was in addition to and not instead of, I devoured it without a second's hesitation.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“For Himme, the cumulative effect of the cumulative listening to the cumulative song was cumulatively distressing.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“Thirty miles is a long way, even by car, and on foot it’s a thousand times more, especially for a dog, whose step is like a quarter of a human’s.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“Слънцето скоро ще помръкне и тя ще влезе вътре. Защото светлината няма да е достатъчна нито за слънчеви бани, нито за четене. Като се прибере, аз ще нарежа диня и ще изядем резените на балкона, заедно. Ако това стане след малко, дори може да хванем залеза.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“Until he turned twelve, Nimrod was a shitty person. The kind of whiner that, if he wasn’t your best friend, you’d have kicked his ass a long time ago. And then one day, just before his bar mitzvah, they put insoles in his shoes, and suddenly the guy was a whole new human being.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“I mean, there aren't many inventions that actually succeed in meeting some human need. Ninety-nine percent of them are just some ugly combo of pushy marketing and spineless consumers.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“What is cancer, he thought to himself, if not a terrorist attack from above? What is it that God is doing, if not terrorizing us in protest against...something. Something so lofty and transcendental that it is beyond our grasp?”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“He invented ordinary things, and I stress, ordinary. Not brilliant, just ordinary, and that's exactly what humanity needs. Brilliant inventions might be good for brilliant people, but how many brilliant people are there? On the other hand, ordinary inventions are good for everyone.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“Lots of parents are dying to sacrifice everything for their children,” .........
Okay, it’s true that, in the end, we’ll disappear, but so what? In the end, everyone dies, and your father and me, we won’t even die, we’ll just fade away.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“But what really counts isn’t what people say to your face. It’s what they say behind your back.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“Започна хубаво предаване, помисли си телевизорът, а точно сега няма кой да ме гледа. Много ме е яд. Ама толкова много, че ако не бях с изключен звук, щях да се разкрещя.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“pragmatically,”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout