Stanley Elkin Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 11, 1930 - May 31, 1995

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A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

Andrea Bocelli

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People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.

John Hume

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I just love working with actors in general.

Treat Williams

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I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that I don't think of them as work in the usual sense of the word.

Joyce Carol Oates

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As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name.

Connie Chung

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There's been no major motion picture released by a studio, no independent motion picture, in theaters, with King at the center, in the 50 years since these events happened, when we have biopics on all kinds of ridiculous people. And nothing on King? No cinematic representation that's meaningful and centered.

Ava DuVernay

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We would never comment on private correspondence.

Prince Charles

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If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I'm not the norm; I'm not deluded.

Pete Burns

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One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you're not encumbered by being seen - it's liberating. You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera.

Mark Hamill

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We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

Munshi Premchand

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I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.

Morarji Desai

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I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

Martha Stewart

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