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The furthest out is the only place to be.
Stanley Elkin / Novelist
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Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.
Stanley Elkin / Novelist
Holes
Plot
Miniature
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I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.
Stanley Elkin / Novelist
Ends
Rope
Writing
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The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays
Stanley Elkin / Novelist
Men
Holiday
Peculiar
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Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.
Stanley Elkin / Novelist
Exercise
Rocks
Writing
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Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.
Stanley Elkin / Novelist
My Generation
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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 / Novelist
Concern
Dying
Terrified
Mine
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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 / Novelist
Heart
Inspiration
Rags
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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 / Novelist
Believe
Enough
Less Is More
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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 / Novelist
Diamond
Fine
Management
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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 / Novelist
Art
Fire
Order
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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 / Novelist
Distance
Order
Two
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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 / Novelist
Affirming
Unimportant
Agreeing
Bowl
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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 / Novelist
Bottom
Interesting Things
Ought
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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 / Novelist
Nonfiction
Great Always Opportunity
Badly
Great Gift
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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 / Novelist
Aunt
Cousin
Jersey
New Jersey
Named
Summers
Visited
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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 / Novelist
Philosophy
Religious
Self
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