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Just Quotes by Walter Kirn
- Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
- Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it…
- 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…
- Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters,…
- The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility,…
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- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
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