Stefan Kanfer Quotes

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

  Stefan Kanfer

  Powerful, Black And White, Strange

  "Author looks at 'Ball of Fire' Lucille Ball". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. September 2, 2003.

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

  Stefan Kanfer

  Sad, Grief, Loss

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• Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Men, Poet, Young

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

  Stefan Kanfer

  Opera, Stuff, Soap

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• Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Powerful, Two, Essentials

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

  Stefan Kanfer

  Privacy, Aphorism, Posing

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

  Stefan Kanfer

  Nice, Telephones, Buttons

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