"Short stories are fiction's R & D department,……" — Walter Kirn
"Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for."
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Walter Kirn
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51 Quotes by Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn has 51 quotes on this site.
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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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I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie…
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More Conclusive Quotes
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Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and…
— Alister E. McGrath
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In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to…
— Karl Popper
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With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of…
— Kenneth Clarke
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Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.
— Zig Ziglar
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Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that…
— Leon Foucault
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So, will his new gun laws - aimed primarily at law-abiding firearms owners - reduce the crime rate even further?…
— Allan Rock
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If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming]
— Newt Gingrich
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Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of…
— Roger Bacon
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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
— Alexander Hamilton
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When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had…
— Unknown Author
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