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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 time for it.

Walter Kirn

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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
Novelist
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Akron
Ohio
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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
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I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.
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realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.
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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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Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.
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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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The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.
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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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Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.
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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 to be hoped for.
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When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
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To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.
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Love is a powerful painkiller.
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Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.
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The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.
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The market is the only critic that matters.
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