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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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The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted…
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We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City.
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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
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I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and…
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money,…
— Ernest Hemingway
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One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old…
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The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people,…
— Scott Westerfeld
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look…
— Michael Redhill
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The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.
— Moshe Dayan
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Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he…
— Charles Dickens
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