“There is a solace in finality and a grace in resignation, no matter what one is resigned to—death, helplessness, the end of chance, resignation itself. But 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. So fiction does. And there, right there, is the real-- I want to say ‘only’ morality of fiction. Not much, is it? It’s all there is.”
Stanley Elkin
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