“He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.”

—  Etgar Keret

Source: Gaza Blues: Different Stories

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Israeli and polish writer and screenwriter 1967

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