Cry Quotes by Stefan Kanfer

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.

— Stefan Kanfer

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

— Stefan Kanfer

“FOLKSBIENE, an impoverished, frail Yiddish theater company in constant danger of annihilation, had outlasted all the giants. The year of Schwartz's death the little…

— Stefan Kanfer

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is…

— Stefan Kanfer

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

— Stefan Kanfer

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

— Stefan Kanfer

...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

— Stefan Kanfer

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

— Stefan Kanfer

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

— Stefan Kanfer