Stanley Elkin Quotes

• 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.

  Stanley Elkin

  Believe, Less Is More, Enough

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• La peculiar dignidad de los hombres vistos comiendo solos en restaurantes en fiestas nacionales

  Stanley Elkin

  Holiday, Men, Peculiar

  Stanley Elkin (1967). “Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers”

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• Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.

  Stanley Elkin

  Writing, Exercise, Rocks

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• I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.

  Stanley Elkin

  Writing, Rope, Ends

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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.

  Stanley Elkin

  Distance, Order, Two

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• Como muchas cosas que ocurren en las novelas, la inspiración es una especie de combustión espontánea.
  una especie de combustión espontánea: los trapos aceitosos de la cabeza y el corazón.

  Stanley Elkin

  Inspiration, Heart, Rags

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• The furthest out is the only place to be.

  Stanley Elkin

  Artesanía

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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.

  Stanley Elkin

  Religious, Philosophy, Self

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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

  Management, Fine, Diamond

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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.

  Stanley Elkin

  Art, Fire, Order

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