Quote by Walter Kirn Download Open image ““His voice sounded more sincere in these surroundings, less distorted by pride and pain.”” — Walter Kirn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Behind the sternness of his voice there was a shackled anger, and beneath that shackled anger there was a buried pain.” — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
“He knows a sweep of gratitude, soft as another voice, and so wide and deep he believes he might drown in it.” — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“I was surprised hearing my own ragged voice. I sounded so hateful and angry. My voice didn’t resemble any part of what I knew… — J M Northup Copy Share Image
“For he was a sincere man, and in spite of his superficial airs and graces, at root a humble one. And it is always… — Chesterton Gilbert Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.” — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
“Your voice can be made loud to speak against ungodliness and injustice and not promote it.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“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… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
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… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“For time to pass it would have to go somewhere, and where would that be? Time sits. We move, it sits. Sometimes it trembles… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
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,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends? — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
