Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Stefan Kanfer (American Journalist, Author)

Stefan Kanfer (1933–2018) was an American journalist, contributing editor, critic, and author. He was Time magazine’s first bylined film critic 1967–72.

Born to a Yiddish-speaking Romanian-Jewish family in New York City, Kanfer attended New York University and served in army intelligence during the Korean War 1953–55.

In the early 1960s, Kanfer became a film critic, book critic, and senior editor at Time for more than 20 years. He contributed articles for another five years after leaving the Time staff in 1987. Kanfer became a drama critic for The New Leader and a contributing editor or writer on arts, culture, and politics for the City Journal, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

Kanfer’s 16 books include I Want You (1958; two-act musical,) Journal of the Plague Years (1973,) and Fear Itself (1981; novel.) His biographies are Last Empire (1993; about diamond explorer De Beers,) Groucho (2000; about the comedian Julius Henry Marx,) Ball of Fire (2003; about actress Lucille Ball,) Somebody (2008; about actor Marlon Brando,) and Tough Without a Gun (2011; about actor Humphrey Bogart.)

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Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
Stefan Kanfer
Topics: Sadness, Sorrow

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