Elias Canetti Quotes

“It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.”

“The Lord is like lightening. Startled by its appearance and momentarily blinded by the brightness of the flash, when the lightening strikes a person is either destroy or jolted to new life." Elias the Teacher”

“Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.”

“Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.”

“Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.”

“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”

“Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.”

“I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.”

“I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.”

“The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.”