Apologizing Quote by Walter Kirn

“To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.”

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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

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“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…

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“For time to pass it would have to go somewhere, and where would that be? Time sits. We move, it sits. Sometimes it trembles…

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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to…

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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,…

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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen,…

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Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have…

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“Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.”

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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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“A lady need never apologize. ~ Joseph de Bonaparte (Brother of Napoleon)”

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A jerk will keep hurting you then apologize to keep you from leaving them, and then do it all over again

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Apologizing does not always mean you are wrong, it just means that value your relationships more than your ego.

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I would like to publicly apologize to anyone I have NOT offended¦I will get to you shortly.

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I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost…

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To the millions of Americans whove attempted to use HealthCare.gov to shop and enroll in health-care coverage, I want to apologize to you that…

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My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and…

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Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops

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