--- title: "12 Out Quotes By Walter Kirn" description: "12 Out quotes by Walter Kirn. Plus more from Walter Kirn and more Out sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/walter-kirn-2189_away_what-is-it-in-people-or-just-in-people-l_1402042.png" --- > [What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/what-is-it-in-people-or-just-in-people-like-me-that-would-rather-let/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/walter-kirn-2189_away_what-is-it-in-people-or-just-in-people-l_1402042.png) > [Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/ask-jeeves-who-ever-used-that-thing-college-freshmen-to-find-out-who/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/763/walter-kirn-2189_ask_ask-jeeves-who-ever-used-that-thing-coll_408009.png) > [My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/my-mother-used-to-push-wuthering-heights-on-me-as-a-boy-and-i-sensed/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/743/walter-kirn-2189_boy_my-mother-used-to-push-wuthering-heights_1648449.png) > [Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/remember-daydreams-no-of-course-you-don-t-how-could-you-three-new/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43e/walter-kirn-2189_another_remember-daydreams-no-of-course-you-don_1403764.png) > [Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not 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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c5/walter-kirn-2189_add_once-you-realize-just-the-sort-of-glut-o_62467.png) > [Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/truth-is-stranger-than-nonfiction-and-life-is-too-interesting-to-be/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/284/walter-kirn-2189_complicated_truth-is-stranger-than-nonfiction-and-li_1507077.png) > [I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/i-grew-up-in-a-little-town-in-minnesota-500-people-i-went-out-to/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34c/walter-kirn-2189_away_i-grew-up-in-a-little-town-in-minnesota_207192.jpg) > [A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/a-true-nature-is-a-gloomy-monolith-sort-of-like-that-old-black-rotary/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec5/walter-kirn-2189_behave_a-true-nature-is-a-gloomy-monolith-sort_2260624.jpg) > [One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/one-of-the-saddest-things-about-publishing-is-how-quickly-it-ages/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d3/walter-kirn-2189_about_one-of-the-saddest-things-about-publishi_1714300.png) > [I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/i-say-here-s-the-thing-a-lot-both-to-alert-people-that-i-m-about-to/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3af/walter-kirn-2189_about_i-say-here-s-the-thing-a-lot-both-to-ale_2016834.jpg) > [When I was writing about the Republican primaries, it was as though the Bible was a black box that people reached into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/when-i-was-writing-about-the-republican-primaries-it-was-as-though/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7f/walter-kirn-2189_about_when-i-was-writing-about-the-republican_1985465.png) > [It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c46/walter-kirn-2189_accident_it-s-no-accident-that-most-self-help-gro_39049.png) ## Other authors on Out ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/out/walter-kirn/#itemlist", "name": "12 Out Quotes By Walter Kirn", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Walter Kirn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/what-is-it-in-people-or-just-in-people-like-me-that-would-rather-let/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/walter-kirn-2189_away_what-is-it-in-people-or-just-in-people-l_1402042.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/walter-kirn-2189_away_what-is-it-in-people-or-just-in-people-l_1402042.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/walter-kirn-2189_away_what-is-it-in-people-or-just-in-people-l_1402042.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it…” — Walter Kirn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Ask Jeeves! 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