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Walter Kirn has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be…
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The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level,…
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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
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Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever…
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Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for…
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A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth..
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At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They…
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Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not…
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Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with…
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The market is the only critic that matters.
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The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.
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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some…
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I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not…
— Carl Sagan
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I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at…
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I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and…
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Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I…
— Joseph Conrad
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How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.
— Carl Jung
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My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong…
— Wong Kar-wai
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities,…
— Walter Kirn
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By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.
— Tom Shales
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