172 Quotes by Walter Kirn

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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 your friends?

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    I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn – small, tasty delights – and I like to gorge on them now and then.

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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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    What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone’s cold chicken bones or being offered them?

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    Other people’s devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people’s kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.

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    What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarassment?

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    Overpopulation has a ceiling: earth’s total surface area divided by the dimensions of one economy seat. One more baby is born and hello cannibalism.

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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 low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

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