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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The atom was split by persistence.
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