Quote by Stanley Elkin Download Open image ““It’s like everything else. The price of Torahs is higher in Alaska.”” — Stanley Elkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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“Will you please translate your prices hereafter? I don't add too well in plain American, I haven't a prayer in ever mastering bilingual arithmetic.” — Helene Huff Copy Share Image
“So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.” — Lloyd C. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Because all books ARE the Book of Job -- man in the crucible like Jack in the Box…” — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
“Not just the celibacy thing but because he has God’s ear, a line on the mysteries. That’s impressive to girls.” — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
“Even the sky a hybrid — here clean and black and starred, there roiling with a brusque signature of cloud or piled in strata… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work.… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
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… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
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… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
“There’s something comforting, almost soothing, about realism, and it’s nothing to do with shocks of recognition — well it wouldn’t, since shocks never console… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
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.… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
