Elias Canetti Quotes

'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.

Elias Canetti

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• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

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• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

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• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  

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• What matters most is the win.

  

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• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

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• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

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• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

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• My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

  

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• It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.

  

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• 'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Help