Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Stefan Kanfer
Age: 85 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 17
Died: 2018
Died: June 19
Military Personnel
Writer
New York City
New York
Second
Melodrama
Modern
Combined
Powerful
Feature
Two
Irony
Firsts
Truths
First
Features
Life
Essential
Salient
Essentials
Understatement
More quotes by Stefan Kanfer
Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
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
An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.
Stefan Kanfer