"The reason con artists get away with what……" — Walter Kirn
"The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away."
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51 Quotes by Walter Kirn
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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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