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> [The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/the-room-service-caesar-salads-with-soggy-croutons-the-distant/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

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## More by Walter Kirn

> [Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/everyone-loves-a-witch-hunt-as-long-as-it-s-someone-else-s-witch/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [“I just wasn't ready for his stories. They'd breed with the others I'd heard and hatch new monsters, because there was no such thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/i-just-wasn-t-ready-for-his-stories-they-d-breed-with-the-others-i-d/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/it-s-no-accident-that-most-self-help-groups-use-anonymous-in-their/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [“For time to pass it would have to go somewhere, and where would that be? Time sits. We move, it sits. Sometimes it trembles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/for-time-to-pass-it-would-have-to-go-somewhere-and-where-would-that/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/once-you-realize-just-the-sort-of-glut-of-books-that-exists-out-there/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/there-are-two-sides-to-me-one-is-the-writer-that-s-a-savage-person/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/i-remember-the-first-time-i-went-to-italy-when-i-was-eighteen-i-was/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/quiet-cunning-bested-boastful-brawn/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/the-idea-that-americans-favor-politicians-who-either-remind-them-of/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [“Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/our-habit-of-wishing-backward-from-what-is-to-what-might-have-been-is/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/memo-to-extreme-partisans-if-you-can-t-bring-yourselves-to-love-your/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/people-can-be-so-neglectful-of-each-other-and-of-their-own-heritage/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/i-d-assumed-that-a-deal-was-a-deal-when-princeton-admitted-me-but-i/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/the-reason-that-last-ditch-political-maneuvering-has-become-business/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

> [“Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/meanness-on-request-isn-t-meanness-at-all-but-kindness-carried-too-far/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

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