"Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence,……" — Walter Kirn

"Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act."

— Walter Kirn

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51 Quotes by Walter Kirn

Walter Kirn has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but…
The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at…
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate…
Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave…
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better…
A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.
In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth..
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound…
Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end…
Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's…
The market is the only critic that matters.
The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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