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Stanley Elkin Quotes: "The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays"

The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays



Stanley Elkin Quotes: "Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose."

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




Stanley Elkin Quotes: "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."

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

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




Stanley Elkin Quotes: "Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart."

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 Quotes: "The furthest out is the only place to be."

The furthest out is the only place to be.



Stanley Elkin Quotes: "It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads."

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.




Stanley Elkin Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.-Description of Doomsday"

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.-Description of Doomsday