Stanley Elkin quotes
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“I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.”
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“Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.”
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“The furthest out is the only place to be.”
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“I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.”
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“The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays”
-- Stanley ElkinSource : Stanley Elkin (1967). “Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers”
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“Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.”
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“Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There is only one psychological assertion that I would insist upon. That is: the SELF takes precedence.”
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“But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.”
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“Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.”
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“It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.”
-- Stanley Elkin
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