"If the future, as imagined in literature, is……" — Walter Kirn
"If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down."
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51 Quotes by Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn has 51 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's…
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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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More Boiled Quotes
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new…
— Jo Brand
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion;…
— Julie Burchill
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I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons…
— Jimmy Carter
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so…
— Maya Angelou
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
— J. B. Priestley
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When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.
— John R. Rice
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In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I have to have breakfast and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy,
— Chrissy Teigen
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Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: “Just be cool. Don’t be an asshole.
— Nick Offerman
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It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up…
— Mel Smith
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