Stefan Kanfer quotes

“There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.”
-- Stefan Kanfer

Source : "Author looks at 'Ball of Fire' Lucille Ball". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. September 2, 2003.

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“...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.”
-- Stefan Kanfer

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“Inside every man there is a poet who died young.”
-- Stefan Kanfer

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“Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.”
-- Stefan Kanfer

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“An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.”
-- Stefan Kanfer

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“The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.”
-- Stefan Kanfer

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“Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.”
-- Stefan Kanfer

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“The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

“The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.”

Source : "Decline, Fall, Rinse, Repeat" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.

“You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.”

Source : "Actor Michael Emerson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

“When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.”

“The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.”

“Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.”

“We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads,”

Source : 32 across @aoscott, twitter.com. January 4, 2014.

“It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking”

“Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”

“The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.”