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I look eight years older than everybody. -- Stanley Elkin
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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. -- Stanley Elkin
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Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose. -- Stanley Elkin
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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
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What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood. -- Stanley Elkin
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I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be. -- Stanley Elkin
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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
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The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays -- Stanley Elkin
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The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get. -- Stanley Elkin
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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. -- Stanley Elkin
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The furthest out is the only place to be. -- Stanley Elkin
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I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope. -- Stanley Elkin
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Even the sky a hybrid - here clean and black and starred, there roiling with a brusque signature of cloud or piled in strata like folded linen or the interior of rock. -- Stanley Elkin
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Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. -- Stanley Elkin
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The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.

-Description of Doomsday -- Stanley Elkin
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Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf. -- Stanley Elkin
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When I was growing up, we had a bungalow in New Jersey which we visited in the summers. Everybody in that small community was named Feldman and was either an aunt or cousin of mine. I just found it comfortable to use the name Feldman. -- Stanley Elkin
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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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I do not do schtick. What I do are organized routines and connected schtick - schtick upon schtick upon schtick until we have a piece of carpentry -- Stanley Elkin
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I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen. -- Stanley Elkin