Truth Quote by Walter Kirn Download Open image ““truth from him, is a swan dive through a mirror into a whirlpool.”” — Walter Kirn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Truth
“Ever heard about the swan? All serene on the surface, and paddling like hell under the water.” — Joy Ellis Copy Share Image
“But earlier this week on a wooded path, I thought the swans afloat on the reservoir were the true geniuses, the ones who had… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“The clouds, warm now, sun-spotted, sweep over the hills, leaving gold in the water, and gold on the necks of the swans.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...sometimes I wait for you at the exact edge of the jetty where we left each other. Sometimes I disappear into an unconscious hole… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“His story remains behind, echoing inside me, a tale of impossible choices.” — Cody McFadyen Copy Share Image
“Okay. Sometimes the truth just lands at your feet in a lump, like a big, dead bird falling out of the sky. No warning...I… — Gayle Friesen Copy Share Image
“The deeper you look into Truth; your reflection of self disappears.” — Deborah Brodie Copy Share Image
“Swan dive down eleven stories high Hold your breath until you see the light You can sink to the bottom of the sea Just… — The Civil Wars Copy Share Image
“But swan, float lightly because you are a swan, because by the exquisite curve of your neck the gods gave you some special favor,… — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.” — Douglas Jerrold Copy Share Image
“Upon it floated swans like boats and boats like swans, both lost in the nothingness of the heartless beauty.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
